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...left China secretly because of the refusal of the Japanese authorities to grant passports, had reached Manila aboard a French steamer only 10 days before the outbreak of hostilities. Embarking on the President Coolidge, Ch'en said the first news of the new war reached the boat as it approached the international date line...
...lifeboats adrift from Bermuda to Halifax, told the U.S. last week that all was not well off the North American coastline. Near Bermuda a U.S. patrol plane pancaked on the ocean, rescued nine Britons whose tanker was sunk by a German U-boat off New York. A South American steamer spotted a lifeboat half-filled with water and dead sailors, but had to leave them when a periscope broke water near by. Off Nova Scotia, 20 men of the 48-man crew of a torpedoed tanker were picked up. Three semiconscious survivors of the Standard Oil tanker W. L. Steed...
...best supply line that the Greeks have had in the last months has been a little Turkish steamer, the Kurtulus, which sailed weekly from Istanbul to Peiraeus with wheat, corn, vegetables, dried fruits and a few medicines. A fortnight ago the Kurtulus struck a reef just off the Turkish coast and sank...
...A.A.R. embargoed all rail freight to the West Coast for export unless shippers can prove in advance that they have steamer space...
...boarded a British destroyer, which slipped by blockading Japanese warships and steamed into Manila Bay through strange mine fields which sank an intercoastal steamer. From Manila he hurried to Dutch Borneo, then to Singapore. From Singapore he got to Médan on Dutch Sumatra, took the last commercial plane to Rangoon. On Dec. 28 the Japanese made their parachute attack...