Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the bleak little Siberian town of Habarovsk flashed news last week of an informal meeting between one Tsai Yun-shen, representing China-and one Simbn-ovsky, Soviet. Deploring the Sino-Russian dispute, they signed a peace protocol. The terms: Immediate restoration of joint management of the Chinese Eastern Railway (cause of all the strife); withdrawal of the Soviet army from Manchuria; mutual release of civilian and military prisoners; mutual reopening of consulates; a formal conference at Moscow, Jan. 25, to settle all questions still under dispute. World chancelleries took note, awaited word of the Moscow agenda...
...SIBERIAN GARRISON-Rodion Markovits -Horace Liveright...
Author Markovits writes from his own experience: he was taken prisoner by the Russians in 1915 and spent six years in Siberian prison camps. His book, which made little stir on its first publication in Transylvania, was taken up by Budapest critics, is now being published simultaneously in nine countries...
Eielson to the Rescue. Icebound off Cape North, Siberia and 500 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska, were two ships containing 14 men and a maid, also $1,000,000 worth of white fox, squirrel and other Siberian furs. At Fairbanks was Carl Ben Eielson, Arctic and Antarctic flyer, now general manager of Alaskan Airways. To the rescue flew he, took off the furs and the humans...
...great red airplane landed last week in northwestern Manchuria near the Siberian border, where Chinese and Russians have been fighting off and on for three months (TIME, July 22 et seq.). Two grimy men clambered out of the machine, then scrambled for a barricade, for threatening natives were running at them. The aviators gestured placatingly. They tried to pantomime that they were Frenchmen. Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Jacques Bellonte, that they had flown from Paris in an attempt to make a non-stop record over Europe and Asia, and that the exhaustion of their gasoline and oil had forced them...