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...Wang dared not even reveal to the Chinese people he expects to rule what are the terms of the pact he has made with Japan. "Now is not the time," bleated Wang in Shanghai, diving like a prairie dog into a Japanese steamer which chugged off up the swirling Yangtze, escorted by five Japanese gunboats. Lest somebody take a pot shot at Puppet Wang from the river bank, Japanese puppeteers kept him below decks, Japanese censorship choked off all news of what happened when "the new Premier" reached sacked and gutted Nanking...
...Passenger to Bali (by Ellis St. Joseph) is a symbolical melodrama. It concerns a scoundrelly demagogue, "a dictator in search of a country" (Walter Huston), who gets on a tramp steamer and then can't be got off, since not even the scurviest hellholes of Asia will let him land. He gets the crew rum-soaked and rebellious, but the captain, though driven desperate, is too law-abiding to toss his vicious passenger overboard. Finally, as the ship starts sinking, the captain shoots...
This week a Nazi bomber swooped down on the British India passenger steamer Domala, packed with Lascar refugees who had been interned in Germany, dropped three bombs squarely on her decks. With the bomber circling overhead and (so said the survivors) spitting machine gun bullets, passengers and sailors who had not been killed by the bombs began dropping into the water, many to drown. Dutch and British freighters rescued 189 of the 295 aboard the Domala, which was later towed to port. The 106 who died made up the war's second largest noncombatant casualty list (Athenia, 112, Simon...
...port of Saudi Arabia, is too scorching hot for tourists, and death is traditionally the penalty for any non-Mohammedan who should venture inland from it to Holy Mecca, birthplace of Mohammed. Jidda harbor is protected by two miles of treacherous reefs, and gingerly last week the chugging little steamer bearing Bert Fish went threading in through the narrow, twisty channel called "Jidda Gate." The blinding white and torrid town, where every window is latticed against the sun, is a maze of narrow streets into which tall stucco houses jut at crazy angles. All but one of the city gates...
Fifty persons were rescued when a city-owned steamer went adrift in Boston Harbor; hundreds were marooned in hotels and municipal buildings in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut while thousands of stalled automobiles blocked highways. Severe seas were reported battering the Rhode Island coast from Watch Hill to Narrangansett and snow drifts from one to five feet deep were reported by State Police in the southern New England area...