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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-CHINA: Growling & Hissing | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

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