Word: khabarovsk
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...longer cruising range, and Herndon & Pangborn could take turns at the controls whereas Pilot Post was obliged to fly without relief. They gained time by cutting short their stops, but unscheduled landings put the Miss Veedol about a day behind the Winnie Mae when she quit the race at Khabarovsk, Siberia...
...Blagovyeschensk, 850 mi. beyond Irkutsk, the flyers encountered their first serious trouble when the Winnie Mae mired in mud. It was 14 hours before a detachment of soldiers with a U. S.-made tractor pulled the plane out. At Khabarovsk Post and Gatty deliberately sacrificed another 26 hours of their ahead-of-schedule time by giving their plane a minute overhaul, and taking 12 hours' sleep in preparation for the hazardous 2,100 mi. dash to Nome. They took off in the face of doubtful weather over the Gulf of Tartary. the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Bering Sea. This...
...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...
...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...
Heavy rains and tornadoes swept eastern Siberia last week, raising the River Amurat the rate of an inch per hour. Soon more than 100 villages were flooded; 40,000 peasants were rendered homeless; 100 drowned. The angry waters continued to swirl, threatening Khabarovsk, important Siberian city. The storm showed no sign of abating...