Word: transshipment
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...news came last week of things deep stirring in the heart of Asia. Bleak Soviets rule today, instead of Tamburlaine, but even so the men of Samarkand still sip iced honey as of old, still deal in that exquisite lambskin, caracul, worth sometimes ?500 ($2430) a hide and still transship eight hundred million pounds of Chinese tea each year to Russia. The men of Samarkand were occupied last week in quite the good old way. The women were causing trouble...
...aboard, and at San Francisco were hospitals. The boat had left Brooklyn a fortnight before. On it were 125 first-class passengers, including 13 members of the U. S. House of Representatives. There were also 950 enlisted men under command of Brigadier General Henry G. Learnard who was to transship some of his detachment at Honolulu for service in China. The ship's crew numbered 147. Altogether there were some 1,200 people on board, and three Army doctors to care for them in sickness...
...many as 63 of these ships have been known to be off our coast at one time, waiting to transship their cargoes into small boats that usually do the actual smuggling. Most of the foreign vessels lie well out at sea but, under the new liquor treaties permitting seizure of vessels within an hour's sailing distance of the coast, 16 have been seized: 13 British, one Norwegian, one French, one Italian...