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...matter of fact, had occurred, but Soviet Russia was thoroughly "mad" at Japan and her puppet. Manchukuo police and soldiers have been high-handedly arresting Soviet employes of the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, Aug. 27) along which Will Rogers jounced from Harbin to the Soviet frontier at Manchuli where he changed trains for Moscow. In Tokyo these arrests were strongly protested last week by Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev in a note which held Japan responsible for the acts of her puppet and concluded ominously: "The Government of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics expects that the Japanese Government will make...
...guerrilla warfare in Siberia at the head of a band of Cossacks against the newborn Soviet regime. England. France and Japan supported him for a while, later he drew his pay from Japan alone. Once, with 16 men. he drove a large Soviet force out of the stronghold of Manchuli in Northern Manchuria. In 1922 he went to the U. S., spent six days in New York City's Ludlow Street Jail when a Soviet company sued him for $500,000 worth of woolens he had seized in Siberia. He claimed Japanese-British bankers had seized...
...Hearst's Universal and International News Services. From Tunis, where he had been basking pleasantly, high-strung little Karl Von Wiegand hurried by boat, train and plane to Mukden on summary orders from Hearst headquarters. Frederic Kuh, Berlin bureau manager of United Press, raced across Europe to Manchuli. Associated Press moved Shanghai Correspondent Glenn Babb north to Mukden but despatched no special aces across the globe, believing that, with winter coming, hostilities would not be extensive...
...five-hour fight 22 miles from Manchuli, the frontier city where preliminary Russo-Chinese peace parlying recently broke down. Killed: two Chinese, twelve Russians...
...Soviet samovars last year. The few U. S. correspondents "on the spot" at Harbin and Mukden, last week, heard that Soviet planes were dropping occasional bombs along the Siberian-Manchurian frontier, 400 miles away, and also that six armored Russian trains were drawn up athwart the frontier city of Manchuli. When Chinese riflemen sniped at the Russian planes, a few pieces of Soviet field artillery were unlimbered and warning shells whined across the border, to fall (intentionally) into empty fields...