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Altogether it was an unrelieved week of lost face for the Japanese. A spokesman in Tokyo admitted that the fighting against Russia on the Mongolian border, terminated by a surprise truce on Sept. 16, had been climaxed by a "disastrous, bitter battle." Soviet forces both numerically and mechanically superior to the Japanese had engaged them on the barren Holumbar Plain, devoid of cover of any kind, and whipped them. Admitted casualties: 18,000 killed, wounded, sick...
Turning to Japan, he said, "The deal between the Nazis and the Bolsheviks and the armistice between Russia and Japan over the Mongolian-Manchukuan border would indicate that Japan must reorient her foreign policy...
...France were no longer the whalebones in China's financial corset. The Army's greatest blessing was that it no longer had Russia to fear. Soldiers read reports from Domei, the official news agency, telling that in the no man's land of the Manchukuo-Outer Mongolian border, a Japanese lieutenant colonel and a Soviet major general stepped from cars decorated with white flags and shook hands in formal recognition of their truce. Domei reported nothing, not even the gist, of their conversation. All it said was that the Japanese officer "made a loud laugh...
...Army will display its combative might," and Russia was still neutral. Notes saying the same were handed the diplomatic representatives of the U. S., Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Finland, Bulgaria, Latvia, Denmark, Estonia, Sweden, Greece, Belgium, Rumania, Lithuania, Norway, Hungary, the Mongolian People's Republic, and the Tuva People's Republic...
Convinced after 13 weary years that he had finally proved the Mongolian ancestry of American Indians, happy Dr. Hrdlicka started for home last week. Exactly how the original Indians reached the shores of Alaska he did not know. But he was willing to bet that, after making the arduous journey to the Siberian coast, they traveled to what are now the Japanese-owned Kuril Islands, thence to the Aleutian bridge and North America...