Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opened the discussion of the Assembly by considering the foreign policy of China, and after S. N. Tanikawa 1G., of Japan, had raised the issue of China's questioning the validity of the 21 demands of Japan made several years ago, especially in regard to the return of Port Arthur to China, Phen explained that this port was given to Russia in 1898 to be returned 25 years later or in 1923, that the port was transferred to Japan after the Russo-Japanese War, and that in this latter transaction Japan obtained the port for 99 years by certain notes...
...French are talking of retaliatory measures, and it is claimed that by enforcing certain existing laws virtually every American vessel could be kept out of French ports. Conferences of ship owners are taking place in England to decide on a concerted plan of action against the new prohibition ruling. It is suggested that foreign ships may call at Halifax instead of New York, or drop their liquors there and proceed to New York. It is also suggested that foreign vessels may station rum ships just outside the three-mile limit, leaving their liquors "on deposit " while they touch port...
...vote of 253 to 94 the House of Commons passed a bill providing for a ?10,000,000 ($46,500,000) naval base at Singapore-extreme south of the Malay Peninsula. It was stated that Britain had no port in the Far East where a capital ship could be docked. It was felt, nevertheless, that while the projected naval base was not actually a breach of the Washington Conference Naval Treaty it certainly infringed the spirit of the agreement. Colonel Amery, First Lord of the Admiralty, in his speech said that the base was designed to maintain the British navy...
...solemnly declare that in the interests of good fellowship, international solidarity and the true happiness of mankind no vessel which does not carry one case of champagne or the equivalent in whiskey or beer for each passenger and each member of the crew can enter a British port...
Transoceanic lines will probably have a Canadian port of call-such as Halifax-in order to load and unload their liquor supplies and thus take full advantage of the new interpretation...