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...Juggling of ship registry. Last week the British freighter Nancy Moller, under charter to a Chinese firm, tried to take a cargo of rubber into China. A British warship ordered her back to Singapore. U.S. freighters, under Panamanian registry, are also evading the embargo (see WAR IN ASIA). Panama, however, voted for the U.N. embargo, is now under obligation to curb such sailings...
Heading into the Panama Canal one morning last week, the skipper of the 7,517-ton American-Hawaiian line freighter Nevadan got word that his ship was due for a little ceremony. There was just time for deckhands to whip on their shirts. Off the Balboa docks, the Nevadan took aboard a launchful of officials headed by Canal Zone Acting Governor Herbert D. Vogel. After climbing over a deck cargo of lumber to get to the captain's cabin, the governor turned over a certificate stating that the Nevadan was the 150,000th major ship (more than...
...honor guard of Belgian troops smartly presented arms on the dock one day last week as the Canadian freighter Beaver-brae nosed into Antwerp's harbor. In the ship were the last of 170 artillery pieces, 23,000 machine guns and rifles, and 2,500 tons of ammunition shipped from Montreal to equip a Belgian infantry division...
Part Two of Plievier's story picks up Wenzel, again flat broke, in another South American port. He wanders into the waterfront dive run by Milly, a "shark" who helps shanghai drunken sailors into freighter crews. Wenzel's young face and smooth muscles soften Milly's heart; as she liquors up a crew for a wretched guano ship, she decides to save him for herself. But Wenzel refuses the favor and takes his place with his tricked and sodden buddies...
Last week's recapture of Seoul-temporarily, at least-magnifies the refugee problem. A CAC executive said that although a few of the people who remained in Seoul had mysteriously managed to stay as "fat as quail," the vast majority were suffering from malnutrition. A U.S. freighter with 77,000 bags of rice was already lying off Inchon Harbor. Orphanages will quickly be set up for Seoul's swarms of homeless children...