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Japan had no claims north of the Tumen until she took over Manchukuo six years ago. The boundary of Manchukuo joins the Tumen somewhere near Changkufeng Hill and recently the Japanese decided that the hill would be nice to hold. The Manchukuoan border was easy to argue about, since it was fixed by the Sino-Russian treaty of 1886 of which Russia holds the only known copy (China's copy was unaccountably lost). So fortnight ago the Japanese seized the hill. The Russians fought back and all last week Japanese communiqués were filled with accounts...
...aggravation, unfortunately, had little to do with the case. The Tumen River forms the northeastern boundary of Korea, a country which Japan has held since 1910 when she snatched it from Russia's aspiring grasp. Near the point where the Tumen flows into the sea lies Changkufeng Hill, a prominence which has unusual military importance since to the east it commands Posieta Bay which is of naval importance to Russia. To the south-west it commands the coast in the vicinity of Rashin, a Japanese naval base...
...naval base at Vladivostok is frequently icebound and Rashin is an all-year port, the Soviet was already too much at a disadvantage to let Changkufeng fall into Japanese hands. This week the Russians got busy. They drove a wedge down to the Tumen north of the disputed hill, cutting off its Japanese defenders, whose only bridge across the river is higher up. Japanese officers in the area were incensed. "It is crazy," one of them exploded to a correspondent, "for the Russians to attempt to retake Changkufeng!" Meanwhile Moscow, with something at last to boast about, admitted heavy fighting...
...risky for an Asiatic to frustrate sahibs. The Sultan of Johore soon discovered reports were reaching London that he was making an issue of marrying Miss Hill, had engaged in a "serious quarrel" with the Governor of Straits Settlements. Afraid the British Government might crack down, His Highness suddenly made amends by packing Miss Hill and her mother off to England. But he attended their sailing party and stood on the dock while his guests waved farewell to him (see cut). Last week in London, as mother & daughter landed, the Sultan's long-time legal adviser. Roland Braddell, swarthy...
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