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...grimy little Greek freighter, the Maiotis, on which the fugitive Chicagoan fled from Greece to escape return to the United States to face trial for fraud, passed the Turkish port of Chanak, on the Straits, where the ship was inspected by local officials...
Eight miles away the freighter Tsinan turned about and guided by the pillar of fire ascending to the sky made for the scene. The British destroyer Wishart, warned by wireless, arrived under forced draft at 8 p. m. Cautiously maneuvering through the murk her commander, with magnificent seamanship, brought the bow of his ship against the bow of the fiery Fulton, held her there while the remainder of those aboard the Fulton leaped to safety. A Filipino cook boy broke a leg, an electrician hurt his spine. Six others had lesser injuries but before morning all the Fulton...
...hours later the wreck of the Fulton, still flaming, was being towed to Hongkong by two Admiralty tugs under escort of another British warship, and Bias Bay was clear of all ships except the Norwegian freighter Norviken steaming slowly southward from Foochow. Suddenly 22 Chinese passengers aboard the Norviken whipped out revolvers, rushed the bridge, overpowered the officers, rushed the engine room, smashed the wireless. At their leisure the pirates stripped seven European passengers of their valuables, lowered boats and. unmolested, made for the shore carrying ten nonpiratical Chinese to be held for ransom...
...Maiotis' wheezy engines broke down outside the harbor and took many hours to repair. Then she ran into a heavy storm, was forced to take shelter in the lee of an island. Never a good sailor, Samuel Insull tossed sickishly about on his little freighter reeking of stale oil and garlic and whimpered that shiploads of U. S. pirates were lying in wait to kidnap him. At the last moment the French Government decided to forbid his landing at Djibouti, French Somaliland, chief port of entry for Abyssinia...
Last week for the first time since the Panama Canal was opened to traffic on Aug. 15, 1914, a ship sank in the canal.* In Gatun Lake, half a mile south of the locks, the Dutch freighter Brion suddenly began to list badly, sank before she could be beached. All hands (23) were saved by canal launches...