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Show UImloL Uu Sailors on Warship in New York Haibor Weil Behaved New York, Sept. 14. Chinese sailors sail-ors ashore drink little or not at all, and we have practically no trouble about men overstaying their shore leavo. They are quiet and peaceful and rarely get into trouble." Lieutenant C. Y. Tsen, of the Chinese cruiser Hal Chi, now anchored anchor-ed In the Huds6n, thus praised his men today as he sipped tea In the ward room. More than a hundred Celestial sailors had shore leave yesterday, yes-terday, but the lieutenant's remarks Indicated that New York had not proed their undoing as it has to many an American Jackie. In groups of fives and tens, the sailors, shorn of their queues and dressed very much like Yankee tars, waddled placidly about tho city, gazing gaz-ing curiously at e'erythlng, vet undisturbed un-disturbed by traffic's roar or' whizzing whizz-ing motorcars. Many abandoned a general sightseeing tour for a more intimate inspection of New York's Chinatown. Three squads wont to the theator tQ see an American play. Tho old Chinese theater In Chinatown was abandoned some months ago, so the pleasure of a native play was denied. Of the more than BOO visitors vis-itors to the cruiser yesterday, fifteen were Chinese college students, several sev-eral of whom had come from out of town to view with prido the first fighting craft from their native land ever sent to this country. Brought here to 'be educated at the Imperial governments expense, theso young men, well bred and dressed like American Amer-ican college youths, wero cordially received re-ceived by the Hal ChCs officers and were entertained in the ward room, whilo Chinese residents of New York, less fortunate socially, wandered wander-ed about the deck above. A Cornell graduate, now taking postgraduate work at Harvard, was prominent among the visiting students. stu-dents. There were more than ten ethers from Columbia and an undergraduate under-graduate from Syracuse university. All were disappointed at not seeing Rear Aclmlral Ching Pin Kwang, who Is In Washington, but tho young lieutenants lieu-tenants on board showed them every attention and pointed out everything of Interest on board. oo |