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Arriving at Harbin, the jumping off place for Manchukuo pioneer homesteaders, Mr. Nakaoka tut-tutted the idea that among the Japanese homesteaders he will enjoy any special prestige or influence because he was the very first person ever to assassinate a Japanese Premier, polishing off Premier Hara in 1921 for the now fashionable reason that he was "spineless...
Only 300 mi. north of Harbin, 400 mi. northwest of Vladivostok, the new Jewish state was precisely in the hypothetical line of march of the next Russo-Japanese War. Six years ago Soviet Russia marked it as Jewish, moved in several thousand Jews from Western Russia, Lithuania, the U. S., Argentina and Palestine. Many of them moved right out again. The soil was rich; the crops of wheat and oats were heavy; iron, coal, graphite, marble and gold lay in the hills; the rivers ran with salmon and the forests with game. The neighbors, Russians and a few Koreans, were...
...Soviet manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway spanning Japan's puppet State of Manchukuo. The manager, Comrade Julius Rudy, had counted up to 280 armed attacks by "Manchukuans" on his Soviet railway guards before Manchukuo authorities clapped six Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern into jail at Harbin where they still languished last week. Since that time Russia's negotiations to sell its $200,000,000 equity in the Chinese Eastern to Manchukuo have completely collapsed. "All wise governments should watch the Far East with the greatest vigilance," wrote M. Herriot. "The question of a railroad in Manchuria...
...single jointly-owned subsidiary. Although in volume Europe is the best U. S. oil customer, rivalry in the East is much more intense, always more colorful. As everyone knows, one-half the world's people squat on that portion of the globe that lies between Karachi and Harbin. And all oilmen know that one more gallon of kerosene each year for each & every Hindu, Siamese, Chinese and Japanese would lift sales to figures fantastic. Thus there is always desultory scrimmaging between the big oil companies. It broke into open warfare in 1927 when Socony and Royal Dutch were fighting...
...eventually built, the railway not only spanned North Manchuria, but branched off from the Russian-built junction, Harbin, to traverse South Manchuria and end at Port Arthur. That fatal branch, the great Imperial Russian Minister, Count Witte, later admitted, largely provoked the Russo-Japanese war. Japan, when she had whipped the Russians, seized their southern branch from Port Arthur as far up as Changchun (140 miles below Harbin) and made it her own great, imperial iron road, the Japanese South Manchuria Railway...