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...Snatch" last week was sitting up in bed at Shanghai, surrounded by flowers, cablegrams and congratulatory letters. His doctors permitted him to walk about his room and receive visitors. A warship waited to take Sir Hughe to a swank resort in The Netherlands East Indies for final convalescence-and still the Japanese Government, far from having made the "fullest redress" demanded by the British Government, had not yet officially replied to London's charge that it was a Japanese war plane which suddenly swooped down on the Ambassador's car and shot "Snatch...
...putting on pressure to force a Japanese reply by suddenly refusing to discount the sterling bills of Japanese exporters. Whether or not this was being done, Japanese Premier Prince Konoye meanwhile scared the British Admiralty to issue instructions to unescorted British merchantmen, bidding them submit to search by Japanese warships if challenged in Chinese waters. The Admiralty saved as much face as possible by adding that after such a search the Japanese warship concerned "must" report its findings to the Admiralty, as must also the searched British merchantman...
...British and other foreign ships would also be searched for contraband if they put in at Chinese ports. Despite this neither London nor Washington put down a firm foot even when the British freighter Shengking, on its way to evacuate refugees from Shanghai, was questioned by a Japanese warship before being allowed to plow up the Whangpoo. Meanwhile the blockade not only cut off Chinese supplies but hit the Chinese treasury by reducing the collection of customs revenues...
Inventor Sperry's first demonstration of the gyrocompass was in 1910 aboard the Warship Delaware. The Delaware's chief electrician, a stocky, 24-year-old farm boy from North Carolina named Thomas Alfred Morgan, was of great help in installing the mechanism. Next year Inventor Sperry lured Tom Morgan away from the Navy to install other gyro-compasses for the new Sperry Co. Serious, hard-working Tom Morgan applied himself with such vigor that by 1922 he was vice president, had contributed immeasurably to Sperry's rise to dominance in the field of nautical and aeronautical instruments...
While Congress was having its busiest days of the year last week, the U. S. State Department was doing almost as well. By week's end, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had: 1) announced an important trade pact with Soviet Russia. 2) proposed a U-Sail-It warship renting service for South American republics...