Word: manchuli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
From Moscow came no equally authoritative counter charge. Soviet troops were admittedly mobilizing to menace Manchuria like a pair of tongs closing in from Manchuli and Vladivostok. Russian newspapers in the U. S. received word that General Uberovitch had been appointed Soviet Commander-in-Chief. During the World War he served as a regimental commander in the Imperial Russian Army, was later C.-in-C. of the Soviet forces which repulsed the white Russian Armies from Siberia in 1919. Though a taciturn martinet, Comrade Commander Uberovitch is popular in the Red Army, is reckoned its most brilliant strategist...