Kerans dismisses his demands but is able to manipulate Peng into the release of the seamen meanwhile, as talks progress he has the ship patched up and its engines restored. Similarly, he will not allow the two wounded sailors to leave unless they give him statements declaring the British to have been the transgressors, which they refuse to do. Before they can leave, however, the local PLA commissar Colonel Peng ( Akim Tamiroff) makes contact with the Amethyst and at a meeting between senior officers makes his position clear: either the British government releases an apology accepting all responsibility for the entire incident, or the Amethyst will remain his prisoner. Kerans decides to risk steaming down the Yangtze at night without a pilot or suitable charts.
Lieutenant-Commander John Kerans ( Richard Todd), assistant naval attaché in nearby Nanking, is ordered to go to the beleaguered ship and take command. An attempt to evacuate the wounded is only partially successful - the officers of the Amethyst become aware that two seamen have been captured by the PLA and are being held at a nearby military hospital. A further rescue attempt by HMS London in consort with HMS Black Swan also comes under heavy fire and has to be aborted.įifty-four of Amethyst 's crew are dead, dying or seriously wounded, while others deteriorate from the tropical heat and the lack of essential medicines, including the ship's captain, who dies of his wounds. HMS Consort attempts to tow Amethyst off the mud bank, but is herself hit several times and has to depart. Suddenly, without warning, People's Liberation Army (PLA) shore batteries open fire and, after a heavy engagement, Amethyst lies grounded in the mud and badly damaged. Pogba, whose knee injury requires surgery, is sidelined for Juve's clash with PSG on Tuesday and faces a battle to be fit for France's defence of the World Cup trophy in Qatar starting in November.On 19 April 1949, the Royal Navy frigate HMS Amethyst sails up the Yangtze River on her way to Nanking, the Chinese capital, to deliver supplies to the British Embassy. He also denied the accusation about Mbappe, telling media in France that he had not sought to cast any type of spell to harm Mbappe and only used the sorcerer in a bid to be protected from injuries. Pogba reportedly made a €100,000 ($100,000) payment after he was threatened by masked, armed men in a Paris apartment in March while he was in France for national team duty. Mathias Pogba last week appeared to address the witch doctor claim in a Twitter post directed at Mbappe: "Kylian, do you understand now? I have nothing against you, what I am saying is for your own good, everything is true and known, the witch doctor is known!'' He has some issues at the moment so it is not the moment to add to them for him and that's it. "So I will trust my teammate, in the best of interest of the national team as well. He called me, he gave me his version of the story and as of today, it is his word against his brother's word. "As of today, I prefer to trust the word of a teammate. "I don't think it will alter my relationship with him," Mbappe said during the news conference prior to PSG's Tuesday Champions League match against Juventus. Messi, Neymar, Mbappe given bench warning.On Monday, Mbappe told a news conference that he had no issues and confirmed that Pogba had already reached out to him. Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, MLS, more (U.S.)įrench media reports said Paul Pogba told investigators the extortionists wanted to discredit him by claiming he asked a witch doctor to cast a spell on Mbappe - an allegation denied by his France teammate. They allegedly demanded €13 million (nearly $13m) from the France midfielder. Paris Saint-Germain star Kylian Mbappe on Monday confirmed that Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba reached out to him and denied that the two had differences after Mbappe's name came up in an extortion scandal currently under criminal investigation by French prosecutors.įrench prosecutors are investigating allegations that Pogba was the target of extortion by his elder brother Mathias Pogba and childhood friends.
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