:14:06
Our people have chosen
to leave Red China.
:14:08
Plus goats, ducks, pigs,
and a number of trained canaries.
:14:12
We can no longer live in honor...
:14:14
under the hawks and dogs
who now sit in Peiping.
:14:16
For more than a year,
we have planned every detail.
:14:20
It was one of God's footsteps
that brought you to Amoy.
:14:23
Now we are ready.
:14:25
We ask you to guide us
through Formosa Strait to freedom.
:14:29
- 300 miles down Blood Alley?
- Quite so.
:14:34
You have no charts.
What do you expect to use for a ship?
:14:38
There is but one in the harbor
suitable for our plan.
:14:40
- The ferryboat.
- The ferryboat?
:14:43
A lousy stern-wheeler?
:14:46
Why, that wouldn't last 10 minutes
in Blood Alley.
:14:48
I've watched that relic for two years now.
:14:51
When it's not broken down,
you couldn't get 6 knots out of her.
:14:54
Eight.
:14:55
With that added speed, you could
probably get clear to the outer harbor...
:14:59
before the patrol boat
climbed on your backs.
:15:01
We have other plans for the patrol boat.
:15:04
What plans have you for the gunboats
in the harbor south of here?
:15:07
By voyaging only at night or in the fog,
we expect to avoid the enemy.
:15:12
And I'm supposed to navigate at night,
or in a fog, without charts?
:15:17
- Quite so.
- Quite so.
:15:26
She's a flat-bottomed river boat...
:15:28
and probably draws
about two feet of water.
:15:31
The Formosa Straits is no river.
:15:34
First time you hit whitecaps,
she'll break apart.
:15:37
It is a solid ship,
built in your own illustrious country.
:15:40
Great.
:15:41
Had the eminent brother
not seen these objections...
:15:43
we would think him a fool.
:15:46
Quite so.
:15:50
You better give me time to think.
:15:53
As you wish.