Word: siberia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After over three years of inactivity and only nominal participation in the war, Japan proposes a plan of co-operation with the Allies in a seizure of Russian supplies in Eastern Siberia about the sea-port of Vladivostok. Anger and disappointment in the Bolshevik attitude, and the seriousness of their complete collapse before the advancing Germans point to the immediate acceptance of the proposal. Yet from a broad point of view the desirability of such action is much to be doubted...
...twenty-nine men and included specialists in medicine, bacteriology, hospital management, food, sanitation, and sociology. Colonel Frank Buildings of Chicago was in command of the expedition. We left Boston on June 29, crossed the Pacific in ten days, and then took the long ride of thirteen days across Siberia and Russia to Petrograd, where we arrived August 7. The object of the Mission was to give aid to the Russian people in their prosecution of the war by furnishing needed supplies for the care of the sick and wounded in the army and relief to the needy among the civil...
...trip involved several incidental features which were matters of great personal interest. In particular I was impressed with Siberia. Instead of finding it a barren land inhabited by political exiles, with occasional mastodons embedded in ice, we found it to be a land of great beauty and promise and with immense opportunities for young Americans. This is also true of European Russia. While there are stretches of desert land near Manchuria, there are in the centre of the country enormous areas of fertile land already yielding excellent crops of wheat and rye. The world's food supply could be raised...
...following officers were chosen: President, Pedro Campos '16, of Ponce, Porto Rico; first vice-president, W. J. R. Taylor '17, of Rochester, N. Y.; second vice-president, H. H. Chung uC., of Nanchang, China; secretary, R. C. Williams '16, of Buffalo, N. Y.; treasurer, P. G. Wolo '17, of Siberia, Russia...
...Yatsevitch graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 1903 served as assistant, and later as instructor, in General Chemistry in the same institution, studied Physical Chemistry in Leipsic under Professor Ostwald, and has had two years practical experience in steel works in South Russia and in silver mines in Siberia...