Word: harbin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Georg Tchitcherin, officially charged that Chang's troops interfered last week with the Soviet-operated sector of the Chinese Eastern Railway south of Harbin. Allegedly M. Ivanoff, the Soviet general manager of this sector of the railway, was "arrested" by Chang's soldiers, who thought that they should be allowed to ride free. Certain rolling stock appears to have been smashed, a mail car looted, and two Soviet engineers forced to operate trains on which the Chinese soldiers rode...
Georges gets on to Harbin, where Aunt Teresa's ménage soon follows. Funds have ceased coming from her brother Lucy in Krasnoyarsk. The Vanderflints are indignant; Lucy writes it was the Bolsheviki; they don't believe him. In Harbin, they all infest a duchess's flat, loaned. Georges and Sylvia are caught kissing. Aunt Teresa is delighted; they shall marry. They are delighted...
Coming on top of Japanese recognition of Russia, such a despatching of ambassadors was far from being surprising and possibly no more would have been heard of it had not Ambassador Kopp stopped off at Harbin, in Manchuria. There he permitted himself a few words before the local Soviet Committee and was thus reported (perhaps by antiCommunists...
...Harbin, Manchuria, a white man was sentenced to death by a Chinese court. It was said to be the first time on record that a white man had been so sentenced. The man was M. Kornilov, famed Russian desperado, with several murders to his credit...
Kornilov, heavily manacled, was brought into a court last Spring and charged with a civil offense. A friend passed him a revolver with which he intimidated the court and the crowd and made good his escape. Months later he was discovered in a house in Harbin and after a desperate fight, in which his companion and the latter's wife were killed, Kornilov was rearrested...