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...four-day battle. The Japanese official releases retaliated by wrecking 100 Russian tanks, shooting down 53 planes. How much of all this was fact or fiction no one knew, for there was no accredited neutral correspondent within days of the trouble-spot. Only the Japanese wounded jamming Harbin hospitals showed the world outside that the border war was not entirely imaginary. Last week Associated Press Correspondent Russell Brines, who works out of Tokyo, after a long, difficult trip, managed to reach the remote Mongolian frontier and began to make the war make sense...
...protection ''of a European country. According to Amleto Vespa, the Japanese forced him to become their agent by threatening his wife and children. Secret Agent of Japan is his account of his experiences from 1932 until his flight from Manchuria in 1936, covering his operations in Harbin, accounts of the Manchurian drug traffic, thefts, kidnapping, assassinations, torture, all of which he ascribes to Japanese army officers...
...Russian superiors, much to the dissatisfaction of the commander of the A.E.F. in Siberia, General William Sidney Graves. When the White Russians had to evacuate Siberia later that year, General Bogomoletz, who had acquired as mistress a revolution-widowed girl of 20, Anna Zaporojschuk-escaped from the Bolsheviks to Harbin, Manchuria. Two years later Anna and her protector sailed steerage for Seattle...
...picture of General Semenov in TIME for Aug. 23 recalled vividly an encounter with the General in March 1918. A refugee train was on its way from Petrograd to Harbin carrying a polyglot group of diplomatic officials, business men and bankers. On board were the staff of the American embassy in Russia, headed by First Secretary Bailey; the staff of the Japanese embassy, headed by Viscount Uchida; the staff of the Chinese and Brazilian ministries; and the Crown Prince of Turkestan. American civilians included part of the staffs of the Petrograd and Moscow branches of the National City Bank...
...jail at Harbin recently contained six White Guards, convicted of having murdered a pro-Soviet Jewish orchestra conductor named Simon Kaspe. The Manchukuo Supreme Court presently reviewed their case and, according to the Moscow Pravda's passionate account last week, had before it the evidence of Harbin Police Chief Yeguchi who testified: "These men are Russian patriots preparing a revolt on Soviet territory." Even the prosecutor, according to Pravda, tacitly admitted that "the crime had a political background...