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Further, it looked as if Russia would get Japan's half of Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands enclosing Russia's Okhotsk Sea. Russia's position in east Asia would return to about where it was in 1904 before the Russo-Japanese war. Stalin's imperialism had redressed the Tsars' imperial ineptitude...
From the Sea of Okhotsk fog and rain creep southward to shroud a long, splintery island hugging Russia's coast. The island is Sakhalin, stern, unfriendly, peopled with grandsons of the criminals Czarist police sent there to rot and die in chains...
...giant crabs, salmon, herring and cod that swarm along the broken Russian coast of the Okhotsk, Japan and Bering Seas, were last week the subject of grave diplomatic conversations in Tokyo and Moscow. Russian property, they became international following the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) when the Japanese demanded and got equal rights with Russians to fish certain waters. After the Russian Revolution, Japanese fishermen stampeded into all the best fishing grounds, exported their crab catch largely to the U. S., their salmon catch to Britain. Not until 1928, when an eight-year Fishing Convention was signed, did the Soviet...
...small army on active service. But Russia is double-tracking at breakneck speed and, while it does, 200,000 Red troops guard the border from Lake Baikal to Vladivostok. Mean while contemplated under the Second Five-Year Plan is another transcontinental line running from Archangel to the Sea of Okhotsk, as a military backstop in case Japan does cut the Trans-Siberian...
...fumes. Pilot Mattern set his ship down at the coal mining settlement of Belovo, so groggily that it cracked the stabilizer. He lost a day and a half there before mechanics, flown from Novosibirsk, completed repairs. For the treacherous 2,600-mi. hop from Khabarovsk across the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Bering Sea to Nome. Pilot Mattern steeled himself with plenty of rest...