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...evening last week the little U. S. gunboat Fulton, carrying a complement of 186 officers and men under Commander Harry D. McHenry, was cruising in as ugly a bit of water as lies off the coast of China. Bias Bay, 50 miles northeast of Hongkong, is notorious as a base of operations for Chinese pirates. A high sea and an incoming fog made it more unwholesome than usual. At 6:35 p. m. the officers were at mess when an exhaust gasket on one of the Fulton's Diesel engines blew out. In an instant spurting flames enveloped...
...began to move his troops into Havana, to police stations, doorways, roofs. His chief opponent, ex-President Grau's ubiquitous Secretary of War, Navy and Interior Antonio Guiteras, a onetime pharmacist who had somehow got Cuba's 1,000 sailors in his pocket, fled to a Cuban gunboat in the harbor. A few amiable soldiers and civilians stood guard around President Hevia's palace. Getting the heavy scent of trouble, the ABC revolutionary society boys handed around a fresh shipment of guns. Two days after he had been sworn in, President Hevia suddenly sent his resignation...
...Havana harbor, huge seas overthrew the Malecon sea wall, scattered stone blocks like spume, flooded the water- front six blocks inland to a depth of six feet. In full force the hurricane hit the port of Cardenas in Matanzas Province, swept a tidal wave over the city, sank a gunboat in the harbor, destroyed docks, warehouses and the railroad station, cut off water and light, killed 30, injured 100. Cardenas' famed museum of early Cuban relics fell. Members of the ABC revolutionary society, police and soldiers went out potting for the storm-spawn of looters, killed five in Havana...
...fine morning in 1858, a sweet infant boy, Gosuke Katakura, was born in the ancient empire of Japan. In that same year because a New Englander, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, had burst into the Bay of Yedo with four gunboats, the first commercial treaty between Japan and the U. S. was signed. If Gosuke's honorable father ever thought of any connection between the two events, he certainly did not conceive that the result would be 1) Gosuke becoming a multimillionaire; 2) Gosuke becoming peer of Japan; 3) Gosuke at the age of 75 going, in a silk suit...
...commanders. General Tsai retreated to fortifications near Lungyen, only 100 mi. northwest of the important seaport of Amoy. Falling back again from Lungyen, he called for reinforcements. The Communist horde billowed on toward Changchow, 30 mi. from Amoy. Refugees streaming into Amoy brightened at sight of a U. S. gunboat in the harbor, at news that 50,000 reinforcements had been sent General Tsai. Before the reinforcements arrived. General Tsai and his 19th Route Army pulled themselves together, turned and smashed the advancing Communists. The horde quivered, stopped, then streamed back toward the mountains. General Tsai followed, energetically shooting...