The Wuxi China Expatdom Contingent subdues the Kraken! PM Mango says "Let the party begin!"

"Perhaps the greatest celebration in all of human history can now begin in the Wuxi China Expatdom!" These were the words uttered by Wuxi China Expatdom Prime Minister Mango upon receiving news that the Kraken monster has been subdued and the WCE King Gorzo, his Queen Ayira: The Chosen One, Chief Inspector Harry Callahan, and Gambay's Pub Owner Fred Minkleman can now have a proper reception from the nearly 2.7 billion people awaiting them at the WCE Freeport of Lake Taihu.

The homecoming party which was to have taken place on Easter Weekend had to be postponed as the Aircraft Carrier Fred Astaire, commanded by Admiral Lloyd Bridges, carrying the four person WCE Contingent had to chase and subdue the Kraken Monster, believed sent by the Ayatollah of Morder to disrupt the festivities. The Kraken had managed to swallow seven Wuxi China Expats from Ontario, Canada, when the Fred Astaire arrived on the scene and followed the monster to the center of Lake Taihu.

The struggle between the Kraken and the WCE Contingent was monumental. In an exclusive interview with Eye Witness Wuxi China Expatdom News, Sports, and Talk Radio, Admiral Lloyd Bridges reported what happened:

"The Kraken was a foul creature. Smelly and disgusting -- almost as bad the Ayatollah of Mordor's undershorts on a sweaty and hot day after a barbecue. At the center of the lake, the Kraken tried to sink the Fred Astaire with a whirlpool. Thankfully, the fellows at the WCE Intelligence Agency and our Poet Laureate McClusky warned us about this. I rode the whirlpool in a direction opposite to the rotation of the whirlpool -- it helped that Gorzo, and Harry Callahan, with his one good arm, paddled. The Monster tired out and after twenty hours, the whirlpool diminished to nothing. The Kraken then tried to grab Ayira with a tentacle, only to have Ayira pull the tentacle off. Next, the Kraken tried to use its bulk to attack the Fred Astaire head-on, but Harry Callahan, with his one good arm, socked the monster in the eye. And so Fred Minkleman, using his gift of mimicry, made a Kraken mating call, and the dazed Kraken summoned up the energy to embrace a ten meter high wax statue of Barbara Streisand covered with super glue which we had specially made for the occasion. It remained for Gorzo and I to enter the belly of the beast and retrieve the seven Expats, but they said they liked it in there so we left them and the Kraken in the middle of Lake Taihu."