The Sand Pebbles Page #5

Come on, Ski!

Belt him!

Open his face!

Tear his head off!

Hit him! Hit him!

Hammer!

Hammer more!

This is what happens

when you train on beer!

Finish him this round.

You'll need your strength

for the main event.

Oh, yeah!

Hammer! He's ready to go down.

Hammer. Hammer!

Yeah, "hammer, hammer. "

Hit him in the gut. In the gut.

- Kiss your money good-bye, Holman.

- One...

- two, three, four...

- Jake, me lose fight, you lose money?

- five, six, seven...

- Yeah, I lose money, but you lose ship.

eight-

Come on, fight!

One, two...

three, four-

One, two, three, four-

Put him down!

Put him down!

Hammer!

Hit the bum!

Hammer! Hammer!

One, two, three, four...

- Get up, Ski!

- five, six...

- Get up, you slob! Get up, Ski!

- seven...

eight, nine-

- One, two, three-

- Get up, Ski!

Four, five-

Emergency recall!

Everybody, back to the ship on the double!

Finish the count!

- Six-

- Let him alone.

Eight, nine, ten!

Maily! I told you! What'd I tell you?

Me go back to ship?

You're damn right you do.

What's the matter, you sailors?

- Come on! Let's go!

- What the hell's going on up there, Waldron?

Who's blowing that whistle?

On the double!

On the double, there!

- Move it! Move it!

- What's going on?

Let's go! Let's go!

Come on, Chief!

Get 'em aboard! Look alive!

Come on! Come on!

Get steam up, Mr. Bordelles.

Stand by to cast off lines and drift

if we don't get steam up fast enough.

We'll anchor in the channel. Sober the

men up fast. We may have to repel boarders.

Aye, aye, sir. Chief make all preparations

for getting underway!

Now hear this! Make all preparations

for getting under way!

Holman, get steam

up to the engine on the double.

Just a moment.

Wait a minute.

Up on the bridge.

- Steam coming up on number two.

- Right, I'll get the steam pump.

Where you going?

You're boss now.

Look sharp on those lines!

- All hands are on board, Captain!

- Very well!

- Cast off all lines!

- Cast off all lines!

- Get 'em in! Get 'em in!

- On the double!

Last night at Wahnsien,

up the gorges of the Yangtze...

two British warships

fought it out with a local warlord.

200 Chinese were killed

and 150 British.

The Bolsheviks are now saying

2,000 innocent Chinese were slaughtered.

- We're up against a new strategy of lies, Mr. Bordelles.

- I see, sir.

The students of China

are supporting a new leader...

Chiang Kai-Shek

of the Nationalist Party.

He's leading an army north

to wipe out the warlords.

- What are we to do, sir?

- We have new orders, Mr. Bordelles:

- Not to fire back.

- Sir?

Not to fire back.

I don't understand, sir.

Apparently, we're being

blamed for everything.

"The foreign devils. "

It's an old trick, Mr. Bordelles.

To unify people by getting them to hate

something or someone. Well, we're it.

They all want to get rid of us:

Chiang Kai-Shek, peacefully-

the Communists in the movement, by force.

And we're supposed

to grin and bear it...

because if we fire back, we give them

new propaganda to use against us...

and, apparently, we play into the hands

of the Communist element...

who want us to start a real war

so that Russia can come to China's rescue...

and, in that way, take her over.

It is an accident of history

that we and the San Pablo...

are the first American armed unit

to come face-to-face with this new thing.

How we face it can be

our great honor or our dishonor.

I intend that

it shall be our honor.

Our government has decided

for the present...

not to treat this fighting between

Chiang Kai-Shek and the other warlords...

as just another warlord squabble.

We will treat it

as an authentic civil war...

in which we must remain

very carefully neutral.

The United States government

has ordered the evacuation of central China.

We should be making one last

trip to Paoshan...

to rescue the missionaries

at China Light.

Make all preparations

for getting under way.

- Stop engine.

- Stop engine.

Those are the China Light people,

but I don't see Jameson.

- Where's Jameson?

- He wouldn't come!

Take the motor pan

to China Light and get him.

- Aye, aye, sir.

- Shove off at once. Damn nonsense.

Mr. Jameson is

in my custody.

- Yes?

- Mr. Jameson, please.

Come in.

He's down the hall.

Hi.

She's a schoolteacher.

- I met her on a steamer coming up from Shanghai.

- Yeah?

She's a lady.

They'd do great

on the San Pablo, huh?

Collins would have them

standing like that all day.

- Hello.

- Hi. Thanks.

- Oh, thank you.

- I'm Shirley Eckert.

- Oh, pleased to meet you.

- How do you do?

Those kids stand like that much longer,

they're gonna melt.

What's all the machinery

you got over there?

A lot of things

we don't understand.

I thought about you

the minute I saw it.

- How do you like your gunboat?

- It's okay.

- You like it teaching here?

- Oh, yes, very much.

That's to make beet sugar,

and this is for electric light.

- You ought to be running them.

- Cho-jen.

- How come you ain't running them?

- We don't know how.

Some wealthy man

from Philadelphia sent them.

Cho-jen.

That's Cho-jen.

He's a leader

of the students in this district.

I want you to meet him.

He's very bright.

Cho-jen, this is Mr. Holman.

He's an engineer.

- Hiya.

- Hello.

Where's your direction manuals?

Machinery like this usually has them.

I think Mr. Jameson has them.

That Cho-jen- he a Bolshevik?

Oh, no.

Chiang Kai-Shek is his god.

For all of them,

he's the hope.

How come he tied a can

to the reverend?

Mr. Jameson stood trial

in a Chinese court here.

He's under sentence of death.

Opium was found growing

on a remote piece of mission property.

He didn't know about it,

but, technically, he's responsible.

Why'd he go to a Chinese court?

He could have ducked that.

He didn't want to.

He's in Cho-jen's custody now.

We're going to Changsha to appeal

the sentence to a higher court.

We're sure it'll be changed,

and then we can return to our work here.

Changsha?

That's where we're going.

We heard you were talking the missionaries

all the way down to Hankow.

Changsha.

Shirley!

The San Pablo

is going to Changsha.

It'll be quicker

than going overland.

Cho-jen has agreed. We'll be leaving

as soon as you can get ready.

I'll go pack.

Now don't take too much.

I'm sure we'll be returning.

Steam is up. We'll get underway

as soon as the motor pan is secured.

Aye, aye, sir.

- Repel boarders port side, on the double.

- Aye, aye, sir.

Repel boarders port side!

Repel boarders port side!

Repel boarders port side!

- Don't shoot unless they attack! Await the word!

- Await the word!

It's the bilge coolie, Captain!

- Hold fire!

- Hold fire! Hold fire!

- What was he doing ashore?

- I send.

- Cho-jen?

- They're not ours.

What is he saying?

He says, "Watch what we do

to the running dog. "

Who is it, sir?

It's Po-han.

Offer ransom. Speak.

I pay money, $100.

- No, sir.

- Speak!

- What?

- They dare ship to shoot.

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