The perennially mutinous crews of those two flighty will-o'-the-wisps of the Chinese Navy, the protected cruisers Hai Shen and Hai Chi, last week got the scare of their lives.
Thirty-seven years ago the Hai Chi, British-made, and the Hai Shen, German-made, were first class war boats. The Hai Chi, refitted in 1927, is theoretically still the heaviest (4,300 tons), fastest (24 knots) and best armed (two 8-in. guns) of all the twelve cruisers of the Chinese Navy. But its poor old sister wallows along at less than ten knots. The two ships'...
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