Word: changkufeng
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wondered whether Comrade Stalin was not taking a leaf from the Hitler notebook when there was summoned to meet on May 25 the U.S.S.R. Parliament, the All-Union Congress of Soviets. Last time the Congress met was last August during the fighting between Japan and the Soviet Union at Changkufeng...
What hundreds of Soviet soldiers, tanks and heavy guns were unable to do ten weeks ago-drive the Japanese off bleak & barren Changkufeng hill on the Siberian-Manchukuoan border-September's floods accomplished. Last week travelers from Manchukuo reported that Russian troops, after Japanese retired before the flood, planted their red flag atop the hill and began to pit it with fortifications...
Strangest feature of the Changkufeng affair to Russian and outside observers was that during and after the border battles Russian press comment omitted all mention of the Soviet's famed "Red Napoleon," Marshal Vasily Bluecher, Commander in Chief of the Far Eastern Army. One yellow newsman, the Japanese Domei agency's Ihacha Hagueno, dared to flash the flat statement that Marshal Bluecher had been arrested. In retaliation, Soviet secret police pounced on Hagueno's Russian woman translator and clamped her into jail. Promptly Japanese newsorgans announced that Marshal Bluecher had been not only arrested but had committed...
Over the bleak, barren hill of Changkufeng on the Siberian-Manchukuoan border seven weeks ago snarled the fighting forces of Japan and Russia. Moscow claimed the whole hill was in Soviet territory when the scrap started. But when a truce was finally arranged between Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff and Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan was left with her present firm hold on the westward slope of Changkufeng. Russia agreed to submit final ownership to arbitration, thus gave up her previous absolute claim to Changkufeng. For this truce Japan last week was ready to pay off in kudos. Tokyo dispatches...
...lucky was Russia's Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Boris Spiridonovich Stomoniakov, for years the top Soviet authority on the Far East, and adviser to Commissar Litvinoff on the Changkufeng dispute. In Moscow last week it was officially announced that Old Bolshevik Stomoniakov, who joined the Communist Party in 1902, was kicked out of his Foreign Office job on August 7-the day when 110 Soviet tanks, 40 warplanes, heavy Russian field artillery and some thousands of Red Army troops were beaten back after Soviet Far East Marshal Vasily Bluecher had hurled them in a major offensive to recapture...