Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
After seven years of wrangling over the Yangtze Patrol, 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...
Surprised by Patrol...
...started "Mon Dieu!" was an answer. Then, "We are the border patrol...
Fortunately, it was the border patrol, for a fact, looking for the band of earns citizens who had harried us that morning...