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...extends 3,450 air miles. Its coastline is nearly twice that long. The Manchukuoan frontier alone is as long as Europe's Eastern Front. The Trans-Siberian railroad has been double-tracked all the way to Vladivostok, but is extremely vulnerable. If it were cut, the chief cities - Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Komsomolsk-would be isolated. Further north two new lines are being rushed. Biggest industrial enterprise in the Far East is the Chapcherginsk Tin Combinat, which produces 65% of all Soviet tin. No. 1 industrial center is Komsomolsk, where the Amur Steel Works turn out more than 750,000 tons...
...Deryeshnev they were arrested and sent on to Khabarovsk, where they were told the GPU would determine their status. At Khabarovsk another official asked them: "Who is your father?" Said Peter: "He is a farmer. He owns 160 acres, 38 hogs, some farm machinery, four horses, and 15 head of cattle." "Ah, ha!" said the prosecutor. "Your father is a kulak." So Peter and John Stevens were thrown into a nice, new Soviet prison, six stories tall, and tried for espionage...
...Trans-Siberian. Last week Dictator Joseph Stalin and Premier Vyacheslav Molotov were announced recently to have issued a joint order demanding that officials of the Trans-Siberian "restore it to efficient operation." Stalin & Molotov mentioned that "76 railway cars loaded with metal have been standing on sidings at Khabarovsk for six months." Their order added: "Eliminate traffic jams and defective locomotives...
...TIME, June 21), brought the discharge and arrest of four more high officers. Thirty-six more "wreckers" were executed at Khabarovsk...
...Kuznetsk Basin in 1935, discovered that a number of their employes had spent 1,300,000 rubles (about $260,000) on drilling two wells where there was obviously not a chance of finding oil. Eleven more railway wreckers, said to be working for Japan, were shot at Khabarovsk, Soviet Asia-bringing May's bag of executed spies in the Far East up to 66. Russian-born U. S. citizens were refused visas to visit the Soviet Union seemingly for fear that some of them might be admirers of exiled Leon Trotsky...