Word: manchukuo
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...Between Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia (Russian sphere of influence) lies the vast Inner Mongolian plateau, a flat wilderness of grass ruled by hairy, fur-clad Mongol princes under the nominal overlordship of China's Nanking Government. Last month from every corner of Chahar and Suiyuan Provinces the princes of Mongolia left their herds of horses, camels and sheep to ride toward the great Lama Temple at Bathahalak, 100 mi. north of Kweihwa. In a little valley they found it, an exquisite cluster of white Manchu buildings, gold-crested pinnacles, infested by bearded monks. They set up their fur yurts...
Proof of this has been well enough evidenced in Japanese sentiment, in the statements of the leading militarists, in the concentration of troops to the north of Manchukuo, in the nastiness over the Chinese Eastern Railroad. On the other side of the penny, Russia has hastened the building of the Turk-Sib tracks, strengthened the Vladivostok garrison with men and planes, and intimated pointedly that she would not yield a verst of land to anyone. Under these conditions of impending war (though Manchurian difficulties and the coming of winter may postpone the argument for a while), the introduction...
...recent "incidents" in Manchukuo have stirred up editorial writers into a lather of anticipation, as war, "short, brutish, and nasty," is predicted as the imminent outcome of the Japanese-Russian dispute. (The New York Times, on the other hand, has felt called upon to reverse without warning its views of Soviet diplomacy, now terming it shamefully weak and spineless where before they thought it insidious plotting against the safety of the civilized world; the Times has gone so far as actually to bewail the lack of supporting connection between the Kremlin and the Third International). Other papers, however, have asserted...
...huge project, to send a 2,000-mi. rope of roads and railways clear across China at a cost of $50,000,000 gold. It might start from Peiping, dangerously near the Manchukuo border and greedy Japanese eyes; or it might cut southward through the mountains along the Yellow River basin. It might arrow straight west from Nanking to Shensi Province and thence along the overgrown track of the ancient Great Highway to Sinkiang. It might skirt Mongolia, drive monotonously over the wind-marcelled sands of the Gobi, end in the basin of the Tarim River which drains futilely into...
...Northeastern States are threatened. In New York and New Jersey 234 elms have been pruned, 126 cut down and burned. The possibility of American elms disappearing on account of the blight strengthened Dr. Elmer Drew Merrill's argument for a botanical exploration of Northern Japan, China, Korea and Manchukuo. Dr. Merrill, who is director-in-chief of the New York Botanical Garden, called attention to the fact that native trees of eastern Asia and eastern North America are closely related.*Reason: geological and climatic changes affected both regions at about the same time throughout the ages...