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After youthful wanderings his odyssey started at Irkutsk where he was employed as a locksmith on the Trans-Siberian Railway. A chance meeting with two political prisoners who had escaped across northern Siberia made up Author Welzl's mind. That spring he bought a horse and cart, made tracks for the Arctic Ocean alone. Too uneducated to follow maps he followed his nose, and the rivers flowing north...
...182The Chinese Eastern Railway, vital link in the Trans-Siberian route between China and Europe, was cut last week 65 miles south of Harbin, Manchuria by 3,000 Chinese soldiers under General Li Hai-tsing. Ripping up the railway tracks, tearing down telegraph wires the Chinese waited until a train from Harbin chuffed into their clutches. They looted and dispersed before Japanese troops rushed on the scene. Other Chinese troops defied Japanese authority in Manchuria by setting three minor railway stations afire and gutting the city of Suifenho (reported loss...
...continues to show ignorance of Far Eastern conditions." Demanding that more Japanese troops be sent to Manchuria, General Araki said (as nearly as his flowerings can be translated) : "The problems confronting the Empire's defense arm are of such magnitude and profound importance as to transcend those of our Siberian expeditions in 1918 [when Japanese and other Allied troops penetrated far into Soviet territory]. From certain viewpoints the present situation is even more serious than the Russo-Japanese...
...theatre of a Moscow club last week. They were three engineers, three firemen, four conductors and a station master, charged with responsibility for the deaths of 68 passengers, injuries to 128 others, in a triple wreck at Kosina, near Moscow (TIME, Jan. 18). That same day four Siberian railmen had been sentenced to death before a firing squad for "gross criminal negligence" in causing a wreck.* Wives, kinsfolk and 1,000 curious Muscovites crowded the smoky room. Fierce, Trotskyish Chief Prosecutor Reuben Katanyan pointed a long, lean finger at the dazed defendants, described the wreck in lurid detail. "The passenger...
...market was the purchase by a Lancashire company last week of ?500,000 worth of cotton from the Russian Government. Thus did U. S. and South American cotton growers feel the first effects of the most spectacular achievement of Russia's Five-Year Plan: completion of Turksib (Turkestan-Siberian Railroad), chief purpose of which was to spur cotton production in Central Asia, whose products previously had to reach Europe by camelback...