Word: saghalin
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After the signing of the recent Russo-Japanese Treaty (TIME, Feb. 2), the Bolshevik Government was obliged to cancel the oil concession granted to Harry F. Sinclair on the island of Saghalin. This they did legally through the Moscow District Court (TIME, Apr. 6). Mr. Sinclair subsequently announced his intention of appealing to the Bolshevik Supreme Court...
...Japan won economic advantages on paper by the Russo-Japanese Treaty which Russia never would have granted if she had not been checkmated in England by the Conservatives. Russia promises Japan oil concessions in Saghalin and others in Siberia, but the Soviet's history shows that they generally fail to keep their word. Japan's benefits, therefore, are doubtful...
...Emphatically the President had nothing to say against the Saghalin section of the Russo-Japanese treaty...
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