Word: manchuria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...informal meeting between one Tsai Yun-shen, representing China-and one Simbn-ovsky, Soviet. Deploring the Sino-Russian dispute, they signed a peace protocol. The terms: Immediate restoration of joint management of the Chinese Eastern Railway (cause of all the strife); withdrawal of the Soviet army from Manchuria; mutual release of civilian and military prisoners; mutual reopening of consulates; a formal conference at Moscow, Jan. 25, to settle all questions still under dispute. World chancelleries took note, awaited word of the Moscow agenda...
Good Little God. In Mukden, capital of the great northern Province of Manchuria, Governor-General Chang Hsueh-Liang had sufficient respite from war last week to entertain in sumptuous fashion that good little god, the Panchen Lama or "Living Buddha," devoutly venerated by millions of Chinese Buddhists...
Godsend. The consuls of Britain, France, Japan, Germany and the U. S. who set out in a special train last fortnight to investigate conditions in the recent Russo-Chinese battle area in Manchuria (TIME, Dec. 23) chuffed back to Harbin last week, having been refused permission to visit the area they sought. "I am personally convinced," wired a Japanese correspondent who accompanied the party, "that neither the Russians nor the Chinese wanted us to see what is happening...
This flight perhaps made Costes flyer-of-the-year. Three months ago he set another world-record, for airplane distance, with Maurice Bellonte from Paris to Tsitsihar, Manchuria, an airline of 4,910 miles made in the same ship with a more powerful motor (TIME...
...north they suffered a supreme humiliation. Governor General Chang Hsueh-Liang of Manchuria Province capitulated through his emissaries at Nikolsk-Ussiriisk, Siberia, to the emissaries of Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maximovich Litvinov. Cowed by the Red Army's raid into Manchuria three weeks ago, Governor General Chang humbly agreed that the Chinese Eastern Railway shall again be placed under the management of Soviet citizens, as it was before China booted out the Reds last summer (TIME, July 22). In return the Soviet Government agreed to cease propagandizing in Manchuria, but no Chinaman believed that this promise will...