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Word: khabarovsk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Vigorous Rudy, Placid Mo | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...only partial. Scarcely had last week's train completed its run than all the Chinese employes of the C. E. R. went on strike, claiming that vigorous Comrade Rudy had unjustifiably discharged 300 Chinese machinists. In Nanking, officials of the Nationalist Government examined minutely the wording of the Khabarovsk Treaty, started angrily at the number of concessions to Russia to which abject Manchurians had agreed announced that they would not ratify the Chino-Soviet Treaty, summoned placid Mr. Mo for a good talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Vigorous Rudy, Placid Mo | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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