Word: sakhaline
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Troyka. When news of the Revolution reaches the bleak prison island of Sakhalin, the Russian commandant shoots himself in the head and the Siberian exiles are free to try to recapture their former lives, to wander back to wives and children. This situation is complicated for Semion and Ivan, fast friends, because they both love a beautiful Siberian, Natascha. Semion has mated with her for eight years; for five of those years Ivan, living in the same cabin, has manfully choked his desire. But when freedom comes, no such suppression is possible. Ivan confesses his passion to Semion, and they...
News came from Moscow that an ordinary court of law had annulled the Sakhalin Island concession granted by the Bolshevik Government in 1923 to the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Co. on the ground that the Company had failed to keep its agreements. At Moscow, it was said that the case would not be take to a court of appeal, though a representative of Harry F. Sinclair in the U. S. averred that it would be appealed. The sum of $100,000, paid to the Bolshevik Government as a guarantee of fulfillment, was ordered to be returned...
There remains to be considered the fact that, at the time the Sinclair concession was made, the Bolshevik Government was making recognition overtures to the Japanese Government and that Japanese troops were occupying Northern Sakhalin, which accounted for the inability of the Sinclair interests to work its concession. There is nothing to prove collusion between the Japanese and the Bolsheviki to void the Sinclair concession; but, in the Russo-Japanese treaty (Protocol B., Article 1) signed Jan. 20, 1925, it was expressly provided that Japanese were to receive "concessions for the exploitation of 50% of the area of every...
...Russo-Japanese parley, was again resumed at Peking, capital of China, between L. M. Karakhan Soviet Ambassador to China, and Kenkichi Yoshizawa, Japanese Minister to China. The Japanese evacuation of the northern part of the island of Sakhalin (TIME, July 7), was hitherto the stumbling-block in the negotiations. An early agreement, resulting in the recognition of Russian by Japan, was forecast by political observers...
This is a sketch of the reasons which inspire the Japanese Foreign Office to obtain from Russia the northern half of the island known as Sakhalin and Karafuto. And in return for such apparent magnanimity, Japan is willing to cancel Russia's political debt* to her and joyfully accord her de jure recognition...