393.115/10–849: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (McConaughy) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 8—1:31 a. m.]
4219. Urtel 2051, October 7. Masters of Independent and Clipper provided no details of their release beyond that contained our telegrams. Suggest Consul General [at] Hong Kong interview master Clipper and cable Department direct. Clipper ETA Hong Kong October 9, Independent presumably now Pusan. Suggest Embassy [in] Seoul obtain information from master through ships’ agents A. P. Pattison and Company, Pusan, Korea.
[Page 1147]Flying Trader now booking export cargo from Shanghai. Isbrandtsen informed Pattison and Company, Shanghai agents, they had booked 6,800 drums wood oil, 1,850 cases tea, 45 bales silk for Vladivostok. Also advised insurance covering ship and cargo was available and insurance for possible detention of ships by Nationalist Navy. Other cargo 1,500 tons soya beans for Japan and about 1,500 tons general for New York. Trader’s expected schedule is Taku Bar (not definite), Pusan, Vladivostok, Kobe, Yokohama, Los Angeles, New York.
Flying Cloud, due Hong Kong shortly, expected load that port about 6,000 tons cargo for Shanghai.
Sent Department 4219; repeated Canton 1151, Hong Kong 303, Seoul 47.