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Muddy Pearl. Junks and sloops were anchored offshore. A Japanese trawler arrived from U.S.-occupied Okinawa, carrying oil. Macao's Wharf No. 31, an oil pumping dock, was busy day & night. British, Danish and Panamanian freighters, sometimes pausing to lighten their load at Macao, steamed upstream to Whampoa, the port of Canton, through a muddy Pearl River channel which the busy Red Chinese recently deepened. Freighters on the Pearl last week were laden with steel rails, zinc plate, asphalt, Indonesian rubber, Pakistan cotton, American trucks, steel piping, tubing. To China's Reds, Macao and Whampoa are not ideal...
Congratulations to TIME, May 28, and Scripps-Howard Correspondent Jim Lucas for the news focus on the Panamanian ship-registry infamy [U.S. and foreign merchant ships trading with the enemy]. Southern California's Reserve "Privateer Squadron" VP-772 is the patrol squadron mentioned in the story...
...like to see some follow-up reporting on Panamanian ships with ports of call at Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk...
Certainly the ones who are not making money on the Panamanian ships are the seamen. It is a well-known fact that a good number of ship operators, especially Europeans, have made tremendous profits breaking embargoes, and are now trading with the enemy . . . Panama, we feel sure, will put a stop to this whenever the U.N. agree on a complete embargo against the enemy...
...straits dividing Honshu from Hokkaido and into the Japan Sea. It had been a miserable day from the start. At midmorning we began a gradual descent. Tony Ricotta, radarman, spotted two "ships" on the screen. One turned out to be a thick cloud. The other was the lumbering Panamanian off Siberia...