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Paramount in interest on the Chinese scene, last week, loomed the little Soviet steamer Pamiat Lenina (Memory of Lenin), bound from Vladivostok (Siberia) with a cargo of tea for Shanghai and Hankow. At Shanghai, a Russian woman and three Russian couriers boarded the steamer. The captain gave the woman his own cabin, saluted her as Citizeness Borodin, wife of the great Michael Markovitch Borodin, famed Soviet Russian adviser and propagandist attached to the Chinese Nationalist Government (TIME, Dec. 13) which has conquered half China...
...know that Panama had approved an agreement with the U. S. whereby any ship "guilty of habitual smuggling or piracy against a friendly nation" automatically forfeits its registry. However, a long battle in the Federal courts remains to be fought over the Federalship and its clinking cargo...
...most exciting experience was encountered when he was caught running contraband rice into Hongkong, and was forced to dump his cargo over the side of his sampan...
...last port that he went ashore, lured by the prospect of work because of the shipping strike which had just set in and which later became a serious boycott. Leys worked with coolies, attained the dignity of winch-driver, and later made out to the ships daily to cargo with his gang of riff-raff and strike-breakers, returning at night under a pelter of stones from the strikers. He worked on the beach, in the hospitals, and as a newspaper correspondent...
...expedition. They chartered a sampan, and after no few experiences, managed to buy ten sacks of the valuable grain from a schooner at Macao. They sailed back to Hongkong, to find the port closed. They were caught while trying to slip in after dark, and had to durop their cargo to avoid a fine...