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After smouldering for a month the Russo-Chinese crisis (TIME, July 22, et seq.) was flaring up again. At Moscow, telegrams from Soviet commanders on the Siberian-Manchurian frontier complained to Dictator Josef Stalin of provocative and belligerent raids by Chinese soldiers over the Russian frontier. Plainly the field commanders on both sides were spoiling for a declaration of war. But President Chiang and Dictator Stalin are both cool, calculating...
...Sino-Russian Treaty of 1924. If the treaty rights of any nation ?even Bolshevik Russia?are not sacred in China, then the treaty prerogatives of other nations are clearly menaced. The Powers in order to uphold their own rights (such as Japan's hold on the South Manchurian Railway) were obliged last week to uphold Moscow's rights...
...absolute embargo on China tea ?of which $7,500,000 worth was stewed in 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...
Nowhere was this ingenious argument received with such indignation as at Tokyo. Japan has, as Russia had, a great number of her Nationals employed on a Manchurian line-the Southern Manchurian Railway. If the Kellogg Pact can be successfully invoked when China is kicking out Russians, it would be quite as useful should China one day decide to boot out Japanese...
Which Would Win? The occidental who knows most about which side might win a Chino-Russian war is hard-boiled "Major General" Frank Sutton. He used to be chief military advisor to rapacious, barbaric old Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, father of the present Governor-Dictator of Manchuria, Chang Hsueh-Liang. Since Old Chang waged most of his wars from Mukden-and finally died there when his armored train was dynamited-the doughty General Sutton knows every inch of Manchuria's prospective battlefields and also the calibre and equipment of Chinese and Russian troops. Sought out in London...