LEADING TO THE TRUTH

Within China from 1946 there was a power struggle between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalists. In 1946 the C.C.P created the Peoples Liberation Army. The political power struggle escalated into what became a Civil War, a Civil War in which there could be no intervention by Britain, the Soviet Union or the U.S.A. intervention was prevented by the Moscow Treaty of December 1945 with the guidelines and policy therein (Non intervention into the internal affairs within China).

Because of that treaty and its policy all three nations became embroiled in a cold war with all that that entails, monitoring the affairs within China and spying on each other, all having there own vested interests in China.

By the time of April 1949 the C.C.P. Peoples Liberation Army had advanced south across China. Stopping on the North shore of the Yangtze. In retreat the Kuomintang forces or armies of the Nationalist leader and general Chiang Kai-shek, left behind munitions, which were picked up by the advancing P.L.A.

I have already related to the peace talks between the two authorities the break down of those talks and the ultimatums issued along with the dates issued for the final assault or invasion-taking place.

Anyone today can obtain from the M.O.D. the official form numbers that lead to the documented report of all four ships Amethyst, Consort, London and Black Swan, those damage reports provide the evidence to the damage and munitions that caused that damage.

In the reporting of the incident the news media were at pains to find out by asking what was the type and origin of the munitions that caused the damage to the four ships, they were prevented from obtaining that information under the term official secrets. If the news media reporters were provided, unofficially, with that information it certainly was not made public, no doubt under the blanket of official secrets.

Lawrence Earls, book Yangtze Incident and the subsequent film Yangtze Incident, with its various tittles are about to be seen as flukes, just as the Amethyst great escape and Consorts escape were on the 20th April 1949 by the same fluke on the 21st April 1949 the London and Black Swan became victims of the fluke, but the greatest fluke of it all is by fluke a third world was prevented.

The P.L.A. in picking up the munitions left behind by the retreating Kuomintang army of the Nationalists, hadn't the knowledge as to the fuse settings on the U.S.A. munitions, had that knowledge been available to the P.L.A. gunners, and in using those munitions with full potential Amethyst in the first instance would have been atomised before having had a chance to transmit the flash signal "UNDER HEAVY FIRE. AM AGROUND. LARGE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES.

















































Here are six pages that show some of the damage to the ship, where shells passed completely through the ship without causing internal damage those hits have been omitted as well as damage from small calibre weapons, of which, the latter amounted to Several Hundred.


































































































































































































































































































































There you have the Damage Report of H.M.S. Consort.    
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