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...plump Governor Sholtz and drove five miles to the docks on the St. Johns River. There lay Vincent Astor's white and orange Nourmahal. At the foot of the gangplank Owner Astor met him, grasped his hand and exclaimed: "It's a great thing to have you aboard again, Mr. President...
...Shenandoah was nine years ago or come to a catastrophic end in the sea as the Akron did last year, the officer who on the basis of past performance will have the best chance of survival is round-faced Lieut. Commander Herbert Vincent ("Doc") Wiley. "Doc" Wiley was aboard the Shenandoah when it broke over Ohio. "Doc" Wiley was aboard the Akron when it crashed off the New Jersey coast, the only officer to escape...
...hours later the wreck of the Fulton, still flaming, was being towed to Hongkong by two Admiralty tugs under escort of another British warship, and Bias Bay was clear of all ships except the Norwegian freighter Norviken steaming slowly southward from Foochow. Suddenly 22 Chinese passengers aboard the Norviken whipped out revolvers, rushed the bridge, overpowered the officers, rushed the engine room, smashed the wireless. At their leisure the pirates stripped seven European passengers of their valuables, lowered boats and. unmolested, made for the shore carrying ten nonpiratical Chinese to be held for ransom...
...Japanese schooner anchored just outside Vladivostok's heavily fortified harbor. The captain said he was a "scientific fisherman" and had had a little engine trouble. Frontier guards reported that he had high power radio sending sets aboard, that his schooner was engaged in espionage...
...Rotterdam stood two miles off Nassau in the Bahamas, her captain deciding it was too rough to land. Suddenly a tender came bobbing precariously out through the heavy sea. Aboard it was Patrick Cardinal Hayes, determined to get back to Manhattan in time to review the St. Patrick's Day parade...