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...interest, whence came most of China's outside help. The Japanese well know that if they can shake those three nations loose, China will be nearly won. For China's only other friend and armorer is Russia, and across the dreary 2,000-mile road from Siberia, so rough that most trucks are permanently crippled by just one trip over it, China has been getting perhaps 10% of her outside supplies. Without outside help China is just about done...
...plus annual fluctuations in the whale catch, caused recurrent famine years. So in 1892, a notable famine year, a Presbyterian missionary named Sheldon Jackson, backed by Quaker funds, undertook an experiment in practical ecology, which is the science that relates living organisms to their environment. Reindeer were imported from Siberia into Alaska for the Eskimos' benefit. Unlike its close relative the caribou of Alaska, the Siberian reindeer is easily domesticated. It was figured that the little brown men could use the hides (much warmer than wool) for clothing, the flesh for food, sell their surpluses to help things along...
...Canada today carries more freight by air than any other country, may well become "the air crossroads of the world." From London to Shanghai via Newfoundland, Edmonton, Alaska, the Bering Straits and Siberia is 4,000 miles shorter than via the route now flown from New York across the Pacific...
...Asian Odyssey is the grim memoir of a White Russian artillery officer, who served under General Kolchak and Baron von Ungern-Sternberg against the Bolsheviks in Siberia and Mongolia. While many a book has been written about the Russian Red and White armies, and at least two biographies about the fantastically sadistic Ungern-Sternberg, none has more simply or vividly described the incredible hardships and cruelties of a fight which will long rank with the more shuddering chapters of Russian history...
...vast are the Orient oceans, so wide the trade routes leading over them to Dairen and Vladivostok, that any airtight blockade of Germany's Asian door is unthinkable. The distance across Siberia (6,000 miles), plus the fact that the Reds are hustling to build electrical, steel and shipbuilding industries in Eastern Siberia, gave Mr. Maisky's oath a ring of honesty...