Word: sakhalin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...north of the Japanese island of Yezo lies in the Sea of Okhotsk the long island known to the Russians as Sakhalin and to the Japanese as Karafuto...
...Gods here narrates some of his earlier adventures on the same continent. Employed by the Tsar's government in investigating salt lakes, coal mines, gold deposits, Dr. Ossendowski was obliged to make long trips into the Kalunda and Bateni steppes, into the Altai Mountains, to the convict island of Sakhalin, into the extraordinary Ussurian country where the tropical tiger roams in the same forest as the reindeer and the northern goose and the Indian flamingo rise from the same lake. During these travels he watched the Tatars taming their wild horses, he saw the two eyes of a man-eating...
...results of the Russo-Japanese negotiations for the settlement of the Japanese claims in the northern half of the island of Sakhalin and of indemnity for the Nikolaievsk massacre are withheld from the public...
Negotiations (for Japanese recognition of Soviet Russia) between the Japanese Government and the Russian A. A. Joffe, reached an impasse, with the refusal of Joffe to admit Russian responsibility for the Nikolaievsk massacre or to concede special rights to the Japanese in North Sakhalin...
There is, however, a complication in the Sakhalin controversy. Late last Winter an American, Harry F. Sinclair, head of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Co., obtained an oil concession on northern Sakhalin from the Soviet authorities. Japanese aspirations were rendered transparent by the hostile comment of a large part of the Japanese press. The Soviet Government through its representative at Tokyo, Adolph A. Joffe, is trying to get Japan to settle with the Sinclair Co., in case Russian Sakhalin is ceded...