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...Manchuria, the Red Army's Major General Andrei Kovtun-Stankevich was the latest to apply for admission to the lodge. He told nine British and U.S. correspondents who asked why Mukden's factories were stripped (see FOREIGN NEWS) that the Big Three had okayed these Russian removals "either at Yalta or Berlin-I'm not sure, offhand...
...months after the Russians entered Mukden, industrial metropolis of Manchuria, U.S. correspondents were allowed to enter. Reported TIME Correspondent William Gray...
...main street of Mukden's former modern Japanese area is now "Stalin Prospect." The Yamato Hotel is "Hotel of the Intourist Travel Agency of Moscow, U.S.S.R." Near Mukden's railway station is a granite-mounted Red Army tank, a memorial to Russian soldiers. Russian and Chinese flags fly together everywhere, but there is little doubt which flag dominates...
...atmosphere of Mukden is charged with a degree and kind of fear that Americans should never experience, and find hard to believe until it infects them also. We toured this depressing city one cold bright morning in a Chinese Army truck. In one street we came upon ten blackening Chinese or Japanese corpses, a fortnight old and partly gnawed by dogs. Grisly as this sight was, it was more easily forgotten than the sight of Mukden's ravished factories...
This week Russia was still picking through the bare bones for industrial loot. When Red Army men carted off machinery from the Mukden ice plant, the city's new Chinese mayor, Tung Wen-chi, protested to the Russian garrison commander, Major General Andrei Kovtun-Stankevich. A man of remarkable statements (see INTERNATIONAL), the Soviet officer blandly replied: "The Red Army is very powerful. I cannot stop them...