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...went back. The firing on Nanking began the next afternoon. I cannot describe my feelings, as I watched from a gunboat while the city I had loved and called my home was being fired...
...their consulate were stripped and subjected to carnal violence. The Japanese consul, who was sick in bed, barely managed to escape with his life, saved nothing but a portrait of his Emperor, the sublime Son of Heaven. Later a Japanese officer, ostentatiously without arms, landed from a Japanese gunboat in the harbor, and with great coolness brought 160 Japanese citizens in safety from the city. ¶ At Nanking were killed: one U. S. citizen, the Harbor Master and Mr. L. S. Smith, both Britons, one French and one Italian Catholic priest and one unidentified Japanese seaman...
...this ilk and their families arrived from Nanking at Shanghai, last week, haggard, troubled in spirit, some hatless, many in Chinese garments, some suffering from ptomaine poisoning contracted aboard their rescue ship, the U. S. gunboat...
...TIME, Sept. 13, you mention that an American destroyer, the Elvano, was fired on while steaming up the Yangtze. You probably refer to the small gunboat U. S. S. Elcano which is stationed at Ichang. It is easy to believe that she was fired on, but much harder to conceive her steaming up the Yangtze...
...Elcano is an old Spanish gunboat captured by Admiral Dewey in the Battle of Manila Bay. Some years ago she was refitted and sent to occupy a station of the Yangtze Patrol Gorges at Ichang, just below the Yangtze Gorges. The trials and tribulations the Elcano met with in navigating the comparatively quiet stretch ot river between Hankow and Ichang make a legend dear to the hearts of the merchant skippers at Ichang. Some say she was towed up by hundreds of Chinese trackers, and others that she came up under her own power, making sometimes as much...