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...told of my father's death until after we had been transferred to a freighter bound for Shanghai. Of course, if I had known, I would have rushed...
Yang. One General Yang Sen, a little sloe-eyed commander, 45, nominally subordinate to Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu (see above), caused the affray by seizing the British river freight boats Wan-tung and Wanhsien. General Yang alleged that the Wanliu, another British freighter owned by the same company as those seized had previously upset two sampans filled with his soldiers. Despite the protests of the local British consul General Yang placed 300 soldiers on the captured freighters who promptly locked the white officers and passengers in their cabins, fed them but sparingly...
...night almost a year ago, the 3,000 ton freighter City of Rome towered over the gashed, sinking hulk of the S-51. Thirty of the crew died beneath the waves of Long Island Sound; 24 of them had swallowed the inky brine which swirled within the submarine, finally, the ghoul ship was raised from the ocean floor (TIME, July 5 et seq.) ; now the 24 sleep in Arlington Cemetery...
...right of way on that September night, that the City of Rome had not obeyed navigation laws. Last week, the Boston Board of Steamship Inspectors suspended for nine months the licenses of Captain John Diehl and Third Mate Timothy L. Dreyer of the City of Rome; blamed both the freighter and the submarine...
...freighter City of Rome loomed over the battered and sinking hulk of the submarine. Commander Dobson cried his orders. Every man on the submarine snapped to obey. The Rome backed water. "Throw me a line!" Water streamed down the open conning tower hatch. Eight men asleep in the torpedo room catapulted from their beds. The wireless operator pressed his key frenziedly. Water, heavy and pitiless, swung open doors, sloughed about carelessly. "For God's sake, throw a line to us!" Six men on duty in the engine room reached for levers, were whirled away by the inrushing torrent...