Word: harbin
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...muddy-looking white jade was used for mouth pieces for tobacco and opium pipes in China due to its cheapness. This was also on sale in Harbin and places in Manchuria...
Manchurian bandits derailed the Chang chun-Harbin train, killing twelve, injuring 47. They kidnapped an undetermined number of passengers, robbed 600. One of the passengers was Henry Hilgard Villard, son of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation.) He escaped unhurt, with passport and money, lost only his luggage. With William Vincent Astor, Ichthyologist Charles Haskins Townsend, nine guests and several thousand kingfish and sea bass aboard, the Astor yacht Nonrmahal sailed from Manhattan for Bermuda. The fish, which are indigenous to the Atlantic Coast, were to be dumped overboard near Bermuda, to acclimate them to warm waters in hope...
...direct the Japanese forces their Commander-in-Chief, doughty little General Shigeru Honjo who seized Manchuria in the first place (TIME, Sept. 28), hurried to Harbin. From this base three Japanese forces were advancing, nominally "to mop up the Chinese bandits." but all toward different points on the Soviet frontier...
Under General Nakamura troops had pushed down the Sungari River to within 30 miles of the Amur River which at that point is the frontier. Eastward from Harbin and westward from Harbin other Japanese columns advanced out along the arms of the Chinese Eastern, which touch Russian territory at each extremity. Mysteriously a Japanese troop train was blown up on the C. E. R., 40 Japanese killed, 100 wounded...
...Japan was by no means at war with Russia yet. A Soviet consular official, traveling in a special five-car train with Red Army guards, rumbled into Harbin, perhaps for a parley with General Honjo...