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...perennially mutinous crews of those two flighty will-o'-the-wisps of the Chinese Navy, the protected cruisers Hai Shen and Hai Chi, last week got the scare of their lives...
Thirty-seven years ago the Hai Chi, British-made, and the Hai Shen, German-made, were first class war boats. The Hai Chi, refitted in 1927, is theoretically still the heaviest (4,300 tons), fastest (24 knots) and best armed (two 8-in. guns) of all the twelve cruisers of the Chinese Navy. But its poor old sister wallows along at less than ten knots. The two ships' toughest problem for decades has been to find a paymaster. Half the time they are in pawn for coal bills, their crews unpaid, a gun or two sold for scrap...
...make last week's track meet perfect. But ten minutes before, breathless spectators had witnessed the unexpected fall of another world mark. Stanford's Ben Eastman, who set a world's half-mile record two years ago, ran his race agains Charles Hornbostel of Indiana, who hai equaled Eastman's time last year. East man was away first, 8 yd. ahead at the first turn of the last lap. Hornbostel cut it down to 4 yd. and then dropped back a yard as Eastman, running with all his oldtime smoothness, whisked across the finish. Eastman...
...cruiser Hai Chi ("Flag of the Sea") earned in 1911 the distinction of being the first Chinese war boat ever to visit the West when she steamed as near as possible to the Coronation of King George V, discharged a cargo of Chinese emissaries in gorgeous silken robes. Built in 1897 the Hai Chi and the equally venerable Hai Shen ("Pearl of the Sea") were still listed last week as the only cruisers in China's Northeastern Squadron. When some weeks ago their commanders, quarreled with sedentary Admiral Shen Hung-lieh, Mayor of Tsingtao, he could do nothing...
...Chinese newshawks who swarmed aboard the prosperously mutinous Hai Chi, her captain, still worried about just how big a bribe he would receive, confessed...