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To: TobagoJack who wrote (173946)	6/29/2021 8:58:12 PM
From: ggersh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217577

Same shit different year, nothing changes does it?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (173946)	6/30/2021 3:48:04 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217577

wow, that one amazing set of historical documents and stories. As an after note to the "last gunboat sent to China" story, Commander John Kerans returned home to the UK with a hero’s welcome and became a Member of Parliament for the Conservative party. During the incident, both the ship (Amethyst) and the PLA suffered considerable casualties, and in the standoff and truce, the PLA held the upper hand having the ship surrounded by field guns of a similar caliber to the ships guns. The PLA showed considerable restraint, I think. The negotiations were to score an even bigger victory in the light of a hundred or so years of "gunboat diplomacy" by the British Government. Only Karans saved the British governments butts in that incident. Amethyst Incident - Wikipedia "Negotiations[ edit] On 30 April 1949, the Chinese Communists demanded that Britain, the United States, and France quickly withdraw their armed forces from any part of China. During the negotiations the Communists insisted that the British ship fired first, but eventually, in 1988, the PLA commander Ye Fei, admitted that it was his troops that fired first, [13] thinking it was an American naval intervention. [14] Amethyst remained under guard by the PLA for ten weeks, with vital supplies being withheld from the ship. Negotiations were stuck because Kerans would not accept the demand of Kang Yushao, the Chinese representative, that he admit the British state had wrongly invaded Chinese national waters. The CCP insisted that it was illegal for Amethyst to cruise in the Yangtze River." There is an after note to the after note though, and the important relevant bit for the board. Cmdr John Karans had a difficult career and not much luck in life. His life was transformed by the "Amethyst Incident" and that should have been a happy ending to his story, especially when he inherited a sizable fortune later. On the advice of a personal friend, he "invested" all his money, which was promptly lost. So in the end he "nearly won". A common enough occurrence -g- / -ng- :-)