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Chang appointed as his peace emissary businesslike Mr. Li Shao-Kung, who was made general manager of the Chinese Eastern last July after the ousting of Soviet Manager Boris Emshanov. At no small personal risk, Mr. Li set out eastward from Harbin on his disputed railway last week, heading for Pogranichnaya, whence he would travel 500 miles north in remotest Siberia to meet the Soviet plenipotentiaries at Kobaronsk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-CHINA: ''Not One Square Inch! | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...dollar Chinese Eastern Railway, 1,179 miles long, which belies its name by belonging to Soviet Russia. Seized and packed post haste from Harbin, headquarters of the C. E. R., were 174 Soviet railway officials and! employes. They scuttled north, minus their belongings, into Siberia. General Manager A. I. Emshanov who had refused the peremptory request of Lu-Yung-hwang, President of the C. E. R. directorate, to hand over the railway management, found himself suddenly being hustled with his office force through Harbin's cobbled streets and dusty squares and locked into his house preparatory to being booted from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: C. E. R. Seized | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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