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...only into the area which was part of the China theater - and found themselves supporting the French restoration. U.S. airmen, marines and naval forces transported and supported their Allies, the Chinese Nationalists, only in areas where there were Japs to be surrendered and disarmed. (At the important port of Chefoo, for example, Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey backed away, declined to land because the Communists had al ready disposed of the Japs there...
...China coast the Communist Eighth Route Army held a solitary port, Chefoo. But a strong U.S. naval force cruised offshore. At strategic Tientsin and Tsingtao, U.S. marines landed and nonchalantly took over. Later they would hand the cities to the Nationalist Government. Other Marine contingents had raised their standards in Peiping and Chinwangtao...
...Hopkins, Gerard's father, not only wrote books giving Advice and Instructions to the Master Mariner in Situations of Doubt, Difficulty, and Danger; he was also consul general in London for the then-independent Hawaiian Islands. Sons Arthur and Everard contributed drawings to Punch; Lionel, British Consul in Chefoo, collected "ancient incised bones...
Three years ago Chan Tze-ming and Wang Chi-fu signed on in Chefoo, China, with 18 other Chinese, to sail the Kwang Yuan. The crew discovered that the "Chinese" company which had bought the craft had placed aboard three Japanese officers, learned in San Francisco the Kwang Yuan was to carry 2,100 tons of scrap iron to an Osaka (Japanese) munitions factory...
Ever since the Japanese occupation of Shantung, Chefoo has been one of the principal ports of call of coastwise British steamers. Chefoo exports famed Shantung lace and most of the hairnets worn by U. S. women. Last week one of these ships, the Hunan, idled along off Chefoo. In its hold lay a cargo of bean cakes, machinery, flour, and beer for the British flotilla preparing to assist in the blockade of Vladivostok. A handful of passengers-missionaries, German merchants, two or three mysterious White Russians-were lolling in the lounge; a couple of junior officers were playing ping-pong...