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Japan began feeling out Russian defenses along the 1,800-mile Manchukuo-Siberian border. Small frontier clashes sputtered all week. Having made an issue of Soviet mines laid in the Japan Sea, Japan claimed they were illegal floating mines, that two Japanese fishing boats had been sunk by them. Anticipating the enlargement of this or some other issue, Russia's Ambassador to Tokyo Constantin Smetanin sent his and other Soviet embassy wives home to the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Two Jackals | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...factories, they've been going up so fast east of the Urals that you can hardly recognize a town if you come back to it a month later. . . ." Heineberg example : Novosibirsk, Western Siberian city with a population of more than a million, which now blazes at night with the lights of new iron and steel, plane and munitions plants. Many another hinterland town, said Heineberg, has been similarly transformed into a modern industrial city of American-style concrete and steel buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Vodka to Super-Fire | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...engineers, architects, intellectuals and Army and Government officials are lavished with money and privileges. Even the very young ones all appear to get the equivalent of about $450 monthly, with large bonuses for working in the new Siberian plants and outposts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Vodka to Super-Fire | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...Some of these youngsters were going westward on one of my trips on the Trans-Siberian. Their pockets bulged with cash. They drank vodka before breakfast and champagne with their meals. The meals alone cost $4 in American money - I was a piker in such company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Vodka to Super-Fire | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...underwater strength. Yet time urged them on. By October monsoon winds would blow into action, lashing the east coast of Malaya and the Indies with turbulent waters. Landing under such difficulties would double the risk. The monsoon for the admirals was a time limit almost as compelling as the Siberian winter for the generals. In another six months, by April., when the monsoons are over, the Netherlands Indies might be almost impregnable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAR EAST: Porcupine Nest | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

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