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...passionate climax of his address Marshal Feng boomed: "China has 400,000,000 people, yet we cannot resist the bullying of a nation with only a few scores of millions. Japanese Imperialism is comparable only to the ways of wolves and tigers. What with their gunboat policy and their heavy artillery sometimes we are treated worse than dogs...
...Nicholas, be Tsar!" But spirit was not in the weakling. When the Empire collapsed Maria Feodorovna removed to the Crimea, later departing on a British gunboat to seek sanctuary with her sister, the Dowager Queen-Empress Alexandra...
Intense was the mortification of Admiral Bristol when he found that aboard his ship, the small gunboat Mindanao, there was no gun equipped to return the salute with appropriate booms and detonations. Rather than set a machine gun to pip-pip-pipping, the flustered Admiral chose not to return the salute at all, but radioed his apologies to shore...
...order that the Nanking Government should not "lose face" in China by making these promises, Minister MacMurray assured Nationalist Huang-Fu that the U. S. State Department is "willing to express regret" that it was necessary for a U. S. river gunboat to bombard Nanking during the troublous times...
...Isabel, flagship of Rear Admiral Henry Hughes Hough, churned the waters of the Yangtze River last week. Passing between Nanking and Pukow, the gunboat ran into the Chinese war. Bullets spat from both sides of the river, whistling across the decks, flattening themselves against the armor...