The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 5, 1900, Page 9

THE SAILING HANCOCK, wit d yet the ts pec midst, a e of a Huguenots in the negroes in weaken there iber acting ag- exterfor could have irate's " must en of the , Who permit the present f extermination. d by those who control the upply Lips of our forces that it is impossible to man the vessels effectively without the Chinese and that the service wouid be crippled without them. Where are the Americans? Are our people so scarce and hard to find that we must depend upon the very barbarians middle kingd every forelgn her policy to do so. within her territory t would be to her dis- reiterated te days when during tl running so hig side. Who ve Now among them ful pirates, in fact about the only irates left fn th times of civilizat and prog Orly a few months ago twenty five of them boarded an English river steamer in China, robbed the passen- gers at their convenience, threatened to blow up the vessel if the English officers resisted, and made their escape with thelr plunder; the most daring bit of piracy of modern days. It could be done over again anywhere any time. With a Chinaman sitting in the powder magazine, as did the TA LIP THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN . sent to pro- ek has elie cc cabin hoy en, and they reamed of by at Washington on in the quarter- 1l posted as different ce. That vernment ific that the had only the best reports from the Chi- nese, and that those on the Hancock in particular I shown the greatest anxi- ety to get away from San Francisco as soeq as possible. General Ludington took this as an instance of their devotion to the flag. Whether or no the fact that there had been such a strangely unusual number of soldiers dropped overboard on the inbound trip had anything to do with their desire’ to get back to China as soon TRAN; PORT HANCOCK .«.MANNED “ON DECK ™ CHINESE PETTY OFFICER WITH CHINESE as possible can not yet be determined. ‘The main argument of the military gentleman, however, was based on two reasons—first, that the Chinese had been there since the Government took the ship, and, second, that it would cost something to return them to China as passengers. UNCOLE JAamM) CHINESE JACK TARS- which way he would point it when In action. Wouldn't it look much better, anyway, to see some kind of a white man there? Why not an American? If we must go to war, let us go in person and not by proxy. There are times on a ship that is going of the na Give can f e t the Chines: