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...trade in the upriver country back of Swatow. Out of nearby British Hongkong, at that moment, sailed the British Asiatic Fleet, off for the Red Sea and European troubles. Then into Hongkong sailed part of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet on its way to the Philippines. A U. S. gunboat and a British warship put in at Swatow. Japanese abruptly dropped their demands. A "face-saving" sale of the sequestered rice cargo was arranged. The Japanese war boats rolled out of Swatow...
Cuba sent a gunboat, a naval training ship and the presidential yacht. The U. S. landed the officers and crews of three Coast Guard cutters and the destroyer Taylor. The foreign quarter at Ybor City was a bedlam of screeching Latins. Twenty-five thousand civilians, gesticulating madly swarmed out to a vast public enclosure of pavilions illuminated all night with blue & red electric lights. Thus last week did Tampa begin celebrating the golden jubilee of its cigar industry...
...tiny Easter Island, isolated eastern outpost of the Polynesians, a French navy gunboat deposited a hopeful group of investigators headed by Professor Alfred Metraux of Switzerland. Ever since it was first inspected by Europeans on Easter Day, 1722, the island has baffled scientists because of its wooden tablets engraved with pictographs which have not been deciphered, its hundreds of huge busts carved from volcanic ash. Expecting little help from the 250 inhabitants (reduced from 5,000 or 6,000 by emigration and polyandry), the Metraux party will make one more attempt to decode the pictographs, discover who made the statues...
...before leaping into action. Part of Eimei Kuramoto's job in recent months had been writing firm but minor complaints on specific acts of anti-Japanese boycotting and agitation. Had he been kidnapped? Had he been murdered? Japan's Navy did not wait to find out. The gunboat Fushimi already lay in the river opposite Nanking. Within a few hours the destroyer Ashi joined her. Downstream the cruiser Tsushima swung around. Admiral Sunjiro Imamura on his flagship Idzumo was at Hankow. 400 miles in the interior...
True or false, the Nazi gunrunning story was taken sufficiently seriously in Madrid last week for the Spanish Government, on France's request, to order a Spanish gunboat and airplanes to Ifni and to transfer troops there from the Ceuta on the Straits of Gibraltar...