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Carefully taken apart, the Goddess of Liberty was packed in 214 enormous crates, consigned to the steam-and-sail gunboat Isère for shipment to the U. S. In charge of the shipment was a 19-year-old French lieutenant, Rodolphe Victor de Drambour. No hatches on the little ship were big enough for the enormous crates. He cut open the side of the ship, pushed the dissected goddess straight into the hold. Throughout a 72-hour storm with canvas cut to staysail & spanker, Lieutenant de Drambour stayed on the bridge of his ship, while the crates shifted wildly...
Transporting 3,800 men from Morocco was the rebel command's high spot of the week. The column thus constituted was expected to make a new attack on Madrid from a new direction, the southwest. Most important boat used in the crossing was the Dato, a rebel gunboat. The lumbering Jaime I, flagship of the loyalist fleet, later discovered the Dato in the harbor of Algeciras, shelled and burned her to the water line while British officers watched through field glasses from Gibraltar across the bay. The bombardment also set fire to odorous piles of cork, waiting shipment...
...ranks refused to fight, Chen knew he was beaten. He told Chiang, through an emissary, that he would quit if Chiang would give him a high-sounding title under which he could honorably travel abroad. That night his Second Kwangtung Army having surrendered, Chen scuttled to a British gunboat, headed for British Hongkong where he has a tidy investment in real estate...
...person of grinning, toothy Hachiro Arita. A career diplomat with a long record of service in Brussels, Vienna, Washington and Peiping, he was always considered a liberal, anxious to see the army curbed until he was sent to China in February. Amiable Ambassador Arita arrived at Nanking on a gunboat with decks cleared for action, has been hand-in-glove with the militarists ever since. Returning from paying his respects to his Emperor last week, the new Foreign Minister announced with a wave of his gleaming silk...
...clock they seized the railway station and two radio stations, broke off telephone, telegraph and rail communications and advanced on the Government forces in the nearby police headquarters. Against the veterans President Ayala had only the police and the crews of the Paraguayan Navy's five gunboats. The gunboats dropped shells into the square. The veterans replied with their old trench mortars. That night the President fled to a gunboat whence he radioed his resignation. He was confined in the marine barracks. More dangerous, Estigarribia and Presidential Candidate Luis Riart were arrested. Next afternoon Colonel Franco stepped...