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About three hours out from Hongkong the British steamer Hydrangea was attacked by pirates, who, in the guise of passengers, overpowered the Indian guards, locked up the officers, ransacked the ship, robbed the passengers, grounded the steamer in Bias Bay, escaped to shore...
During the time they were masters of the ship the pirates were considerate to the passengers and gave them cigarettes, oranges. No one was hurt...
...interesting fact that helium airships using gasoline fuel become lighter and lighter, owing to the loss of water vapor from the combustion of the gasoline. To keep the ship down, helium has to be released to bring the weight nearer to that of air. This has made long flights costly and impracticable. But a method of condensing and retaining the water vapor has been devised which keeps the weight uniform and saves the helium...
With the idea of a ship subsidy having apparently gone into permanent eclipse, the Shipping Board is casting about for other methods of rendering aid to American shipping. It announced last week that it favors preferential tariff rates on goods shipped on American vessels...
When the last outline of history is written, the chapter on exploration will owe much of its material to the deeds of men inspired by Jack London and by the famous Traprock, skipper of the good ship, "Kawa." Only a few weeks ago a Frenchman sailed across the Atlantic in a thirty-foot sloop, inspired, as he said, by London's "Cruise of the Shark," and unconsciously perhaps by the romantic voyage of the Kawa into the South Seas. And now three more intrepid spirits, two of them graduates of the University, are planning a trip to the fever-haunted...