Word: pogranichnaya
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...Pogranichnaya, a frontier station on the Chinese Eastern Railway, a patrol of Japanese troops wandered about 1,000 yards into Soviet territory. By the time they had fought their way back to their own side of the fence one Japanese lieutenant and two Japanese soldiers were dead...
...threat: 400 railway cars of the Russian-dominated Chinese Eastern Railway were sent up from Northern Manchuria to the Soviet border town of Pogranichnaya. Japanese realized that these 400 cars could bring an entire Red Army division down to Tsitsihar in North-Central Manchuria whence a Soviet attack might be launched to drive Japan out of Manchuria...
...appointed as his peace emissary businesslike Mr. Li Shao-Kung, who was made general manager of the Chinese Eastern last July after the ousting of Soviet Manager Boris Emshanov. At no small personal risk, Mr. Li set out eastward from Harbin on his disputed railway last week, heading for Pogranichnaya, whence he would travel 500 miles north in remotest Siberia to meet the Soviet plenipotentiaries at Kobaronsk...
...clash between Soviet Russians and a force composed of Chinese and White Russians near the frontier town of Pogranichnaya. Wounded: twelve Chinese, two White Russians, five Red Russians...
...dictators, was believed ready to keep the peace on the basis outlined in China's memorandum, but demanded that all Soviet citizens imprisoned or detained in China be instantly released. Atrocity stories reaching Moscow told of 40 Red Comrades chained and beaten by Chinese and White Russians at Pogranichnaya, Manchuria. Fired by these tales, thousands of proletarians mass-met at Leningrad and voted a manifesto: "The Leningrad workers insist that the Soviet Government take decisive steps against the haughty Chinese and the White Guard bands. . . . The workers declare that the Russian peace policy does not mean Russia is re-signed...
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