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...June 26, 1933, Captain Taudien & friends boarded the stinking but seaworthy Chinese cargo steamer Sheng An near Tientsin. Cried her Russian master Captain Boris Vikhmann, "Ah, my good friend Captain Taudien, this voyage will be a joy!" In five minutes the German had persuaded the Russian to trust him and his friends for their passage money to Foochow (1,500 miles), where the Sheng An was to deliver a cargo of coal...
...around Shantung and into the Yellow Sea the Sheng An clanked steadily in the swell of a monsoon. Captain Vikhmann regaled Captain Taudien and his friends with vodka, smoked salmon, caviar. The Russian captain slept mostly with the first mate's Latvian wife but nobody seemed to mind, least of all First Mate Nicholas Azariev, hospitable and easy going. Finally one night when the Sheng An was 200 miles off Shanghai, the Germans and the Swiss went to work...
First they shot and killed the Chinese wireless operator as he slept in his bunk. Next Captain Vikhmann and the first mate's wife were murdered in his bed. Aroused by the shots, Mate Azariev rushed up from below decks, crumpled beneath a hail of Mauser bullets. To show precisely where everyone stood, Captain Taudien & friends then shot six unresisting members of the Chinese crew, two of whom were killed as they slept...
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