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...emigrants to the U. S. per year. To grant immigration visas, a U. S. vice consul was appointed to Manila just as if it were any other foreign port. Named to the post was Henry B. Day (Yale '27) who until last week was Vice Consul in Hongkong...
...Hongkong arrived 50 Tibetan Lamas, on their way to Nanking bearing gifts and good news to the pious little Panchen Lama who was ousted in 1924 as Tibet's spiritual ruler. The paunchy Panchen Lama took hope of resuming his old position last December when Death came to Tibet's temporal ruler, the devious Dalai Lama (TIME, Jan. 1, et seq.). He dispatched the 50 Lamas to Lhasa to feel out the situation. Last week they reported all was well. Said the Ahchien Lama, leader of the party: "The people of Tibet are eager for his return...
...evening last week the little U. S. gunboat Fulton, carrying a complement of 186 officers and men under Commander Harry D. McHenry, was cruising in as ugly a bit of water as lies off the coast of China. Bias Bay, 50 miles northeast of Hongkong, is notorious as a base of operations for Chinese pirates. A high sea and an incoming fog made it more unwholesome than usual. At 6:35 p. m. the officers were at mess when an exhaust gasket on one of the Fulton's Diesel engines blew out. In an instant spurting flames enveloped...
...Fulton, held her there while the remainder of those aboard the Fulton leaped to safety. A Filipino cook boy broke a leg, an electrician hurt his spine. Six others had lesser injuries but before morning all the Fulton's 187 men and her cat were brought alive to Hongkong...
...hours later the wreck of the Fulton, still flaming, was being towed to Hongkong by two Admiralty tugs under escort of another British warship, and Bias Bay was clear of all ships except the Norwegian freighter Norviken steaming slowly southward from Foochow. Suddenly 22 Chinese passengers aboard the Norviken whipped out revolvers, rushed the bridge, overpowered the officers, rushed the engine room, smashed the wireless. At their leisure the pirates stripped seven European passengers of their valuables, lowered boats and. unmolested, made for the shore carrying ten nonpiratical Chinese to be held for ransom...