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...butcher despite Shanghai's boom. Eagerly these three Germans fell in with a plan proposed by a smooth German seafarer. Captain Hugo Taudien, who talked figures bigger than kidnap money. Rat-faced Arthur Gautschi, a Swiss ex-convict, was cut in on the project because, as an ex-silk tester, he was thought to have "brains...
Undismayed, the pirate captain locked his Chinese crew aboard, sent his pirate friends ashore led by the supposedly brainy Swiss silk tester. They failed to come back. That night Captain Taudien paced his decks. Next morning he went ashore, was also nabbed by Japanese water front police. "We know who you Germans are," said the Japanese police captain wisely. "Sugar smugglers, that's what you are! We've had orders to watch out for sugar smugglers." Taking a long chance, the pirate captain roared, "Search my ship from stem to stern and you won't find...
...encouraging desperadoes of all races to commit piracy and seek haven at Dairen. This lucid view impressed the Japanese judges. They not only confirmed the lower court's sentence of Death upon Captain Taudien and Butcher Westermann, considered the ringleaders, but ordered the life sentences of Silk Tester Gautschi and Mechanic Müller stiffened to execution. Only Mechanic Schroeder, whose protestations of "my innocence, so help me, Mein Gott!" have been especially moving, was let off with ten years imprisonment...
...general, uniform designers are almost as anonymous a lot as postage stamp engravers. Most famed uniforms are a gradual outgrowth of ancient traditions. Thus the sailors of Britain still wear round their necks a black silk scarf, in perpetual mourning for Admiral Lord Nelson. A few famed uniform designers are known. Michelangelo designed the uniform of the Swiss papal guard exactly as it is still worn. The Potsdam Grenadier Guards' uniform was designed by Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia. Cadet James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose military career ended when he was under the delusion that silicon...
...purple-piped shirt open to the waist. St. Francis Robb said, "I'm a revolter. When you have a shirt cut as low as that, you have to have something in back of it, so I wear a white vest under it. Then I put a . . . purple silk sash about my waist. The women all fall in love with it at once and it is the envy...