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Three motor cars lately jounced and bounced along the dusty pot-holed road into Samarkand, Russian Turkestan, ancient seat of Khans, golden city of Western poets. They had come from Harbin, Manchuria, some 4,000 miles. Their chauffeurs were moderately excited because none of them had had to regrease his car. At Harbin they had been supplied with the invention of one Alexander Muhacheff, Russian engineer; an oil extracted from the seeds of a weed that grows wild over vast areas of Manchuria. Despatches last week from Peking stated that some Japanese gentlemen had interested themselves in Engineer Muhaeheff...
...only does Metro-Goldwyn waste Jack Pickford on an attempt to do him justice but the Harvard Dramatic Club forgets the plays of Prague and Harbin and points cast to do its own Brattleian homage to this Great God Brown. Surely the indignation or scorn of honest laughter of the Jones, the Cabots and the Smiths is more than just justified...
...Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Georg Tchitcherin, officially charged that Chang's troops interfered last week with the Soviet-operated sector of the Chinese Eastern Railway south of Harbin. Allegedly M. Ivanoff, the Soviet general manager of this sector of the railway, was "arrested" by Chang's soldiers, who thought that they should be allowed to ride free. Certain rolling stock appears to have been smashed, a mail car looted, and two Soviet engineers forced to operate trains on which the Chinese soldiers rode...
Late and unsubstantiated despatches from Moscow reported that Chang's troops had seized "numerous additional Soviet workers and officials at Harbin." Allegedly Chang imposed a complete censorship upon the local Soviet newspapers, which appeared "with big blank white pages" in protest...
Georges gets on to Harbin, where Aunt Teresa's ménage soon follows. Funds have ceased coming from her brother Lucy in Krasnoyarsk. The Vanderflints are indignant; Lucy writes it was the Bolsheviki; they don't believe him. In Harbin, they all infest a duchess's flat, loaned. Georges and Sylvia are caught kissing. Aunt Teresa is delighted; they shall marry. They are delighted...