provoked by the curious but silent audience, the sailors began to jeer at the chinese. at a signal from an older sailor, the men unbuttoned thier bell-bottomed trousers and urinated down the steps. fifty feet below them, the chinese watched without comments as the arcs opf urine formed a foaming stream that ran down to the street. when it reached the pavement the chinese stepped back, thier faces expressionless. jim glanced at the people around him, the clerks and coolies and peasant women, well aware of that they were thinking. one day china would punish the rest of the world and take a frightening revenge.