Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liner St. Louis left Hamburg one Sunday last month. Out into the grey waste of the Atlantic it carried its dismal cargo: 937 German-Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. The ten-year-old, oil-burning, 16,732-ton ship was scheduled to discharge its miserable company at Havana, proceed to New York to pick up passengers for a gay June cruise to the West Indies. The refugees were to remain in Cuba until they could enter the U. S. They were a typical group of the world's newest homeless wanderers: men in sports clothes who had paid...
...days the ship plowed south and west. In glistening Havana Harbor on a sweltering Saturday the engines stopped. Across the water the refugees could see Morro Castle and the heat-softened outlines of Havana, where many of them had relatives among Havana's 25,000 Jews. Ninety miles to the north lay the U. S. But the ship did not dock. The launches that approached it were ordered back by harbor police. To the refugees the stretch of water between ship and shore was as wide as the 4,600 miles the St. Louis had crossed...
...three halts took place just outside British-owned Hong Kong waters. The British Peninsular & Oriental liner Ranpura was signaled to stop by a Japanese cruiser which fired two shots across her bow. Four officers and a party of marines boarded the ship, demanded to examine the ship's log. The captain refused, radioed Hong Kong for help. After loitering aboard ship for 20 minutes, the Japanese withdrew. The French freighter Aramis, whose skipper was not so tough, was not only halted by a destroyer but armed marines searched her. The captain of the German Hamburg-Amerika liner Sauerland, giant...
...Foreign Office. Embarrassed more than angered were the Germans, associates of Japan in the anti-Comintern Pact, but they also protested. While by week's end the Japanese had given no official answer, her Navy spokesman at Shanghai announced that Japan would search for "military supplies" any ship operating within 200 miles of the Chinese coast. The spokesman added: "It is not a question of rights, but of what the Japanese Naval authorities demand...
Died. Sir Frank Dyson, 71, who, as British Astronomer-Royal in charge of the Greenwich Observatory, was long (1910-33) official keeper of the world's time; on a ship bound for South Africa...