Cured by Experiences in 30 ft. Ketch: Hard Times in Japanese Gaol and Hospital Mr. William S, Gates has finished with adventure, All be wants now is to go home, get a decent job and settle down to as humdrum an exist-fence as he can find. Back in Shang-hal with thrilling tales of be buffeted about by winds and waves in a 30 ft. ketch: of arrest and days spent behind prison bars while Japanese authorities investigated charges of espionage: and of more days spent In hospital beds from sickness contracted in prison, Mr. Gates, who Felurned to Shanghai on August 26 on the U.SS. Stewart, from Manila, mitted last Wednesday that he' was trod of exciting romance.
Mr. Gates, formerly a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, sailed from Shanghai gri April 15 in the 30-ft. ketch, The Flying Dutchman, with Mr. H. G. Wrede, a German, and Mr. Gene Reuben, a Russian, of Shanghai, as his companions. Ten days later, they arrived in Keelung, on the Island of Formosa, where they stopped for fresh water and to recover from the bad blow they encountered three days out of Shanghai. It was not until they anchored off Taito, on the east coast of Formosa, that they were arrested.
Suspected Spies "AIL we wanted was more wat and a night's pleasant sleep", said Mr. Gates. "The Japanese, however, rested us as soon as we stepped ashore. The real purpose was an Investigation of espionage, although their charge was violation of the JJapanese navigation law by anchoring Formosan waters without per The three were held in prison for thirteen days during the investigation, and finally were fined ¥.200 for infringement of the navigation laws and turned loose, Mr. Gates gave up adventuring then and there for, while lying in the hospital subsist: Ing for the first few days on prison fare of cold rice and fish, he contract-inflammatory rheumatism in his elbow. As soon as he was released he went to the hospital in Taihoku, the capital of Formoss.
Relating his gaol experience, Mr. Gates said:—"They put us in detention cells with wooden bars and fed tus at meal-times through small openings in the bars. After the first few days of almost starving, because somehow or other the prison fare was thoroughly unappetising, we were allowed to purchase our own food, which was better."
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