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...Zero. All North China was colder last week than in any winter since 1893. Thermometers said 35°F. below zero in Harbin, Manchuria. Ill-clad, scant-nourished Chinafolk died by hundreds in cities, by dozens in towns...
Last week a troop of 600 White (anti-Communist) Russians suddenly raided and almost wrecked the office at Harbin, Manchuria of the new Soviet manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, Comrade Rudy. Excited Moscow saw in this raid the "sinister" hands of Washington and Wall Street, the right hand perhaps not knowing what the left doeth. Isvestia in rampant rage called the U. S. "the imperialist leader of all the nations now arrayed against...
...first time since Sino-Russian Railway squabbles brought the smell of war to Manchuria, a train pulled out of Harbin last week, made the first complete run over the Chinese Eastern Railway. Correspondents, hailing peace, rushed to their typewriters, praised the treaty signed at Khabarovsk between Soviet and Manchurian delegates, whereby the C. E. R. resumed operation with a Chinese president, placid Mo Teh-hui, and a Soviet manager, vigorous M. Rudy...
Godsend. The consuls of Britain, France, Japan, Germany and the U. S. who set out in a special train last fortnight to investigate conditions in the recent Russo-Chinese battle area in Manchuria (TIME, Dec. 23) chuffed back to Harbin last week, having been refused permission to visit the area they sought. "I am personally convinced," wired a Japanese correspondent who accompanied the party, "that neither the Russians nor the Chinese wanted us to see what is happening...
Emboldened by Manchurian quiet, T. Leonard Lilliestrom, U. S. Vice Consul at Harbin, organized an international train to pass along the Chinese Eastern Railway, investigate conditions in the area of Sino-Russian dispute. The consuls of Britain, Japan, France and Germany climbed aboard...