While the negotiations were continuing, on the night of July 30, the Amethyst forced her way alongside a passenger ship, the Liberated Chiangling, which was going downstream off Chinkiang, and escaped by using that ship as a shield.

• 当谈判还在进行之际，紫石英号军舰于七月三十日夜趁江陵解放号客轮经过镇江下驶，强行靠近该轮与之并行，借以逃跑。