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...Japan three weeks ago occupied Harbin, the recognized "capital" of the "Russian sphere of influence in North Manchuria" (TIME, Feb. 22). Paradoxically, although the Chinese Eastern Railway running through Harbin is under Soviet management, the city itself swarms with at least 25,000 "White Russians" (anti-Soviet). No sooner did Japanese take over Harbin than White Russian Generals Mandriken and Modestov began dickering for arms, promising to use them in a White Russian offensive to capture Vladivostok...
...Vladivostok is the only decent port which the Soviet Union has in Eastern Asia, and it is only 490 miles from Harbin. Naturally the mustache of Soviet Commander Vassili Constantinovitch Blucher. Commander-in-chief of the Soviet Far Eastern Army, began to bristle. Five thousand miles from Dictator Stalin, in Khabarovsk, Siberia (which is only 480 miles from Vladivostok) bristling Commander Blucher shouted at his Red Soldiers: "We won't permit any White Guard imperialistic rascals to tread upon our socialistic soil with their dirty feet! If any one is thinking of stretching forth his dirty paws toward our coal...
...Great Union. In Manchuria itself, apart from the dark doings at Harbin, the situation was ludicrous. Fortnight ago the new independent state supposed to consist of all Manchuria and part of Mongolia was named Ankuo or "Land of Peace." Almost every day last week it was reported to have a new name, but "Daido" meaning "Great Union" seemed to be the favorite...
...Harbin, the so-called "Russian Capital" of the so-called "Russian Sphere of Influence in North Manchuria" had been captured by General Jiro Tamon (TIME, Feb. 15) and that cocky little Japanese announced last week that in doing so he had caused 1,800 Chinese deaths...
...Russians (nearly all anti-Bolshevik) in Harbin hoped Japan would push farther north and pick a real quarrel with Soviet Russia. Last week Harbin was exciting because Tokyo had heard from London which had it from Riga that in Moscow last week highest officials of the Communist Party stood around a table upon which Josef Stalin banged his fist, explaining his "Harbin Policy": Peace. Tokyo was titillated by the possibility that this "inside dope" might be wrong, that Russia might fight...