Post by Administrator on Nov 18, 2013 23:09:57 GMT
Plaque Unveiled in Liverpool in Memory of Chinese Sailors during WWII:
A dark chapter in Britain's maritime history was remembered in the port city of Liverpool when tributes were paid to thousands of Chinese merchant sailors on Monday.
A commemorative plaque was fitted to the wall of a restaurant in Liverpool's Chinatown, the oldest Chinatown in Europe. In the 1940s, the building was used as the office of the Blue Funnel Shipping Line, the gathering point for Chinese crews and the place they used to transmit money to their families in China.
Those sailors played a key role during the days of World War II when many were killed as their cargo ships were bombed by enemy submarines and planes.
But in 1946, thousands of them were rounded up like cattle and shipped back to China and many left behind British wives and children.
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A dark chapter in Britain's maritime history was remembered in the port city of Liverpool when tributes were paid to thousands of Chinese merchant sailors on Monday.
A commemorative plaque was fitted to the wall of a restaurant in Liverpool's Chinatown, the oldest Chinatown in Europe. In the 1940s, the building was used as the office of the Blue Funnel Shipping Line, the gathering point for Chinese crews and the place they used to transmit money to their families in China.
Those sailors played a key role during the days of World War II when many were killed as their cargo ships were bombed by enemy submarines and planes.
But in 1946, thousands of them were rounded up like cattle and shipped back to China and many left behind British wives and children.
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