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...bamboo grille. From the back room came the steady tap-tap-tap of an illegal wireless transmitter, planted there by some amiable Chinese guerrillas. Emily's other friends included fabulously rich Sir Victor Sassoon (he gave Emily a snappy Chevrolet coupé), the gouty Living Buddha of Outer Mongolia ("I have nothing to do all day," he said fretfully, "but chant. . . ."), an Australian brunette named Jean (she worked in Mrs. "Buffalo" San's so-called "massage" establishment), green-trousered Dr. Chu, author of A Study of the Vaginal Vibrations of the Female Rabbit and later Puppet Wang Ching...
Author Gayn's father was a Russian lumberman. Most of Gayn's childhood was spent at sawmill settlements, mostly on the Manchuria-Mongolia border. Some of his closest acquaintances were the Chinese bandits who sold Father Gayn "protective security" - and went after him with a gun if he failed to pay up. Some times Father Gayn's sawmills were run by Russian convicts ("I knocked the hats off some fellows," explained one convict, "and the police found heads inside the hats...
...make an artilleryman, he needs war. On the Soviet-Manchukuoan border in 1938, Voronov's guns took the measure of Japan's artillery, neatly shaved off a few hilltops, complete with Japanese pillboxes. In 1939, the Red Army again fought the Japanese, on the border of Outer Mongolia, though this was primarily Georgy Zhukov's tank show. In 1940, Voronov came against Finland's famed Mannerheim Line...
...China, where he worked three years on the China Press and the Shanghai Times-did special pieces for Reuters, the New York Times, Asia, Travel and the Christian Science Monitor when he wasn't too busy ducking Jap bombs. In 1936 he made a flying trip to Inner Mongolia, later traveled through Manchukuo and the guerrilla-infested country of Occupied China, visited Japan often-on one of those junkets covered the whole country from Nagasaki to Aomori...
...upon to leave the sinking ship at once, the conquered lands to prepare for all-out resistance at the proper time. > Progress may be expected toward, the settlement of special problems between Britain and China (example: the future of Hong Kong) ; Russia and China (example: the future of Outer Mongolia...