Word: ichang
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...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...
...Washington has made a contract in Shanghai for six modern gunboats to replace the old and feeble units now in use. The first is to be ready in March, the others to follow a month apart. The Elcano will soon be released from duty as a floating fortification at Ichang and scrapped...
After the Elcano, the two gunboats U. S. S. Monocacy and U. S. S. Palos which form the Upper Yangtze Patrol, will be released. These are coal and wood burners of the vintage of approximately 1910, and are so old that they navigate the rapids above Ichang with the greatest difficulty and danger...
...Palos went down river to Shanghai early last spring for overhaul and since then has never gotten further up river than Ichang, although she has been badly needed on the upper stretch, and has made several attempts. Chungking residents have a popular ditty to the tune of "Parlez-vous," the two essential lines of which...