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...Japanese shipping agent in Manhattan buys a cargo of rusty old rails, iron pipe, sawed-off steel girders, stoves, smashed automobiles. He loads it into a creaky freighter already headed for the junk heap. Manned by Japanese, the ship takes on enough coal for one voyage, limps south through the Panama Canal, manages to reach Nagasaki 11,000 mi. away. There the cargo is dumped into smelters. The ship proceeds to Osaka where, in the world's largest ship-breaking yard, acetylene torches reduce its hull to hunks of scrap. The crew works back to New York for another...
...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...
...Paint another name on this ship!" barked Pirate Captain Taudien. "What name? Donnerwetter, any name! When we get to America I'll sell her and her cargo for half a million...
After the name Whali had been substituted with Teuton neatness and dispatch, the ten dead were dumped overboard, bloodstains scrubbed, everything made shipshape. Meanwhile, even though the Chinese freighter's cargo was chiefly coal, she could not steam to California without taking on food. In almost any port on the China coast she would be recognized. Shrewd Captain Taudien decided to put her in at the Japanese port of Dairen on the nether tip of Manchukuo. Clumsy, he ran her aground...
Last week in Washington they returned their decision. Though Canadian-registered, the ship, they reported, had been owned by a New York liquor syndicate. Waived, therefore, was Canada's claim for $386,803.18 damages for ship & cargo. But the deliberate sinking of the ship had been justified neither by treaty nor international law. Therefore the U. S. Government should pay the ship's captain & crew sums totaling $25,666.50. To the Canadian Government it should deliver a confession of guilt, an apology, and, "as a material amend in respect of the wrong...