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...week the Kuang Yuang, a river troopship loaded with munitions and 1,500 mercenaries lay at anchor off Kiukiang on the Yangtze. The soldiers, allegedly adherent to Sun Chuan-feng, dozed, gambled, chomped a frugal meal of rice, fired an occasional shot into the air or at a passing sampan to while away the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Pigmy Colossus | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...light sampan sailed over tiny crisping wavelets of Kamakura, a stalwart bodyguard of two policemen squatted respectively at bow and stern. The Premier's secretary, deft, obsequious, baited his hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Potent Premier | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

Without warning the sampan struck a log, overturned in half a twinkling. The policemen, both unable to swim, sank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Potent Premier | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

Premier Wakatsuki and his secretary swam. They swam down to the two policemen, swam up dragging them by the hair, kept swimming until another sampan rescued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Potent Premier | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

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