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...Relations Ruptured- In jittery fear lest Eastern Asia be plunged into a great war by the fighting begun last week, the more prosperous subjects of His Imperial Majesty Kang Te hastily fled from Manchukuo this week to China until all transport facilities were crushingly overtaxed. In Harbin, the Russian metropolis of Manchukuo. which teems with both White Russians and Red, furious quarreling raged between Japanese-Manchu officials and Soviet Consul General Mikhail Slavutsky. He refused their demand that 108 Manchu troops who recently mutinied against Japanese officers and took refuge in Siberia across the Soviet border be disgorged...
...college, in 1909, shipped to China as a student interpreter. He turned into one of the ablest consular officers the U. S. ever had. He served at Shanghai, Chefoo, Dairen, Tientsin, Newchang, Swatow. Chungking and Foochow. He mastered Chinese dialects, Japanese, Russian. At Christmas 1921 he was moved to Harbin in troublesome Manchuria, a consular post he occupied for 13 years. Never a slender tea-party diplomat but a hearty 250-lb. Yankee, he did business in an effective Yankee fashion...
...headed missionaries who were captured by bandits after ignoring warnings to seek safety and whose necks Consul Hanson saved from the executioner's sword by telling their captors, as only he knew how, ribald Chinese jokes. He was called "the man who never sleeps," "the Mayor of Harbin," "the uncrowned Emperor of Manchuria...
...Soon Hsinking, the point of the S. M. R. spear, became the capital of puppet Emperor Henry Pu Yi (TIME, March 5, 1934). Beyond that point, S. M. R. trains have been unable to go on over a spur of the Chinese Eastern to the great Russianized city of Harbin because prudent Tsar Nicholas II had Russia's rails spaced 3½ inches farther apart than Japan's. Last week, following the purchase of the Chinese Eastern from Russia, Japanese got ready to move 150 miles of the spur's rails so as to jab their spear...
...gangs had the entire 150 miles of track narrowed to S. M. R. gauge in three hours. According to Mr. Matsuoka, his all-steel, air-conditioned, streamlined Asia Express will now average 63 m. p. h. up the 600-mile spear from Dairen to Harbin...