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...from its hopes for peace in war-torn China, pygmy President Chiang-Kai-shek, who conquered all China in three years, seized Manchuria's 250-million-dollar Chinese Eastern Railway, 1,179 miles long, which belies its name by belonging to Soviet Russia. Seized and packed post haste from Harbin, headquarters of the C. E. R., were 174 Soviet railway officials and! employes. They scuttled north, minus their belongings, into Siberia. General Manager A. I. Emshanov who had refused the peremptory request of Lu-Yung-hwang, President of the C. E. R. directorate, to hand over the railway management, found...
Back to his capital at Nanking went satisfied President Chiang; up to his fortress at Mukden, Manchuria, 400 miles from Harbin went the "Tiger's Cub," young Chang, after helping to break the railroad treaty concluded by his father, the late, mighty Chang Tso-lin (TIME, July 2, 1928). Both went to marshal armies against further trouble for both knew that seizure of the C. E. R. was open signal to a battle by which they hoped to crush the Russian domination of China's wealthiest region...
...covering its joint operation by Russia and China. President Lu Yung-huang, unmuzzled at last, explained: "Since 1924, violations of the Treaty have been numerous. . . . Soviet Communist propaganda through . , . the railway is proved by documentary evidence seized in the recent raid of the Soviet Consulate at Harbin. We are constrained to take the present drastic measures to safeguard China's interests." Distinctly a threat was his conclusion: "If Russia resorts to retaliatory measures, China is prepared to deal effectively with them...
Married the father, divorced him; married the older son, divorced him; married the younger son. That is what Olga Renovsky, 18, of Harbin, Manchuria, did to the Urosov family between last spring and last week...
...Harbin, Manchuria, an Associated Press correspondent last week cabled excerpts from the announcements of a benefit performance in a leading Harbin restaurant. The performance was entitled: "Exclusive and only visit of the world-famous circus eccentrion...