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...first the runaways steamed north, thinking to sell their ships to the Puppet State Manchukuo. but Japan who tweaks the puppet's strings has a real navy, refused to bid. Disgruntled, the mutineers turned south. They remembered that in 1917 the same three ships sold out to the Canton faction of the late, great Dr. Sun Yat-sen for $60,000. Perhaps Canton might be in a buying mood again...
...Canton is 1,500 miles south of Tsingtao but the creaking old war boats put on their best speed. They had to pass Shanghai, where the Chinese Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek keeps its apology for a navy, but that offered no fight, simply ignored the mutineers. Wallowing on toward Canton they stopped at Amoy-in case the heroic 19th Route Army now stationed there should want to buy a navy...
...Lillie Fortman, of Jersey City, New Jersey, has been attending summer school every year since 1914, that one girl's address is the Boston Navy Yard, that another has Freshman for a last name, and another is 67 years old. Tink Sik Tse lived the greatest distance from Cambridge, Canton, China. The sons of two ranking dignitaries in the Japanese army and navy, as well as the son and daughter of millionaires are enrolled along with students from the Phillipines, Costa Rica, Syria...
...Lawrence University (Canton...
...preserve, and is inclined to view with anger any Japanese poaching. Thus the League Council continued, despite the Lytton report, to speak of the national Chinese government as if such a government did exist, without regard to the fact that Chiang Kiashek was not on substantially better terms with Canton and the Communist South than he was with the berserk Manchurian freebooters of the North. Under these conditions, the withdrawal of Japanese troops at the time of the League order would have meant the establishment of a bloody war lord government in the disputed provinces...