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Meanwhile four Japanese destroyers, the Cumberland and 160 British troops and an Italian gunboat were ordered by their respective governments to concentrate on Hankow, "Chicago of China," to cooperate with each other in every way possible. Eleven U. S. gunboats were at Hankow but under orders from the state department to avoid any official "joint action" with other powers. Foreign governments were nervous. Hankow, richest of prizes, was directly in the path of the "Communist" army advancing north from Changsha, and neither the Nationalist Government nor the Northern Peking rebels seemed likely to stop them...
Normally several hundred U. S. citizens live in Changsha, some 2,500,000 of U. S. money is invested there.* Thanks to the U. S. Navy and its gunboat Palos most U. S. residents were evacuated before the looting...
Married. Constanza, daughter of rebellious onetime Premiere José Sanchez Guerra of Spain; and Lieut. José Estrella of the Spanish navy, one of her father's guards while he was a state prisoner aboard the gunboat Dato (TIME, Feb. 11, 1929 et seq.); at Madrid...
...weeks ago blue-eyed Princess Ileana of Rumania ran her small yacht . on a sand bank in the Black Sea and waited, fogbound, fog-frightened, until rescued by a gunboat from Constanta. Last week, fog-free and thankful, she presented a handsome silver candelabrum to the many domed Cathedral of Constanta. Her pious inscription...
Princess Ileana of Rumania, sailing her yacht from Balcik to Constanta, ran aground on a Black Sea sand bank. The escorting gunboat Lieutenant Dimi-rescut, coming to the rescue, also ran aground, tugged, pulled, finally freed itself and Ileana's yacht...