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...close as possible, thus give the smaller enemy craft a minimum chance to rake his decks. The Amethyst scraped by with a bare 18 inches to spare. Then a junk without lights loomed up ahead and was sliced in two. Then the biggest guns of all, at Woosung, were safely passed, and the Amethyst was in the clear. In the wide mouth of the Yangtse, she met H.M.S. Concord and the sweaty, half-starved crew of the Amethyst cried openly as the Concord's men lined the rails and cheered...
Kerans radioed a message to his commander in chief: "Have rejoined the fleet. Am south of Woosung. No damage or casualties. God save the King...
Then, for two hours, Admiralty officials in London waited anxiously, finally received a terse message: the ship had run the blockade and was already only 40 miles from the Yangtze's mouth. Two and a half hours later, the Amethyst signaled that she was in sight of the Woosung forts. Then she wired triumphantly: "Have rejoined the fleet. No damage or casualties. God save the King...
After three days the Nationalist line blocking the Reds from Woosung still held firm. Said a Chinese Central News Agency dispatch: ". . . in a sea of blood and death the troops are fighting on & on." To bolster morale, Shanghai's new mayor, Chen Liang, rode out to the front in a truck loaded with gifts for the troops-20 live pigs, 20 cases of cigarettes, 3,000 sandwiches and 600 towels. At Lunghua airport, U.S. airlines announced the departure of their last planes from Shanghai. The planes took off with passengers jammed three to a seat...
...artillery could get into position to block the Whangpoo at Woosung, Shanghai would be cut off from the major source of its food, the only source of its coal, fuel oil and raw materials for its factories. Only one question remained: Would the Reds unleash a knockout blow, or would they try to starve the city out? Shanghailanders, lying awake through the long nights, listened to the gunfire and the frenzied barking of frightened dogs in the streets, and waited wearily for the answer...