1.   Lincoln, in turn, ordered a blockade of Southern ports.

2.   Shipping lines have been avoiding the southern ports in fear of having their vessels blockaded.

3.   Since the election, a series of demonstrations had taken place in the southern port city of Masan, an anti-Rhee stronghold.

4.   There were reports also of intercommunal fighting at the southern port town of Kismayu, from which thousands of hungry civilians were said to be fleeing northwards.

5.   As the British had retreated to the beaches of Dunkirk, the government of France had run for the southern port in case the worst should happen.

6.   Another southern port town, Vlore, remains in the hold of rebels.

7.   In one attack, four patrons burned to death in the southern port city of Kobe after gang members threw a gasoline bomb inside a telephone dating club.

8.   In Pakistan, however, anti-US mobs rampaged through the southern port city of Karachi, smashing KFC fast-food outlets and torching cars.

9.   Investigators are said to have taken over two heavily guarded hotels in the southern port city of Xiamen, where witnesses and suspects are being questioned.

10.   It was enough time for Ingram and shipmates to wander from the southern port to the north side of the city, where the bomb fell.