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Courier Wagner's longest tour of duty was 9½ months on Copper Tycoon Daniel Cowan Jackling's yacht. His most capricious clients are Englishmen. One hired him for a trip to the world's coldest spot. He picked Yakutsk, Siberia. From a U. S. millionaire with a Napoleonic complex came his goofiest assignment: a tour of every Napoleonic landmark in Europe. They started in Corsica, wound up six months later on Elba...
...some of the earlier paper triumphs this was scarcely worth mentioning. The Japanese have learned that the more smashing victories they claim the rougher the Russians play. While Soviet bombers continued their out-of-bounds forays, nothing more was heard of the Japanese threat to carry the war into Siberia if the bombing of Manchukuoan towns was not stopped. Despite repeated reports of imminent annihilation, Soviet Mongols were still on the "wrong" side of the Khalka River, and the Japanese were "reluctant" to dislodge them. Manchukuoan Government-controlled newspapers hinted that if the Soviet Union the would negotiate Japan...
...Correspondents who examined prisoners reported that the Russians were employing the poorest sort of cannon-fodder, ignorant conscripts who scarcely knew how to use rifles. The Japanese were, however, having their difficulties with fleets of Soviet tanks and a rejuvenated Air Force. New and better planes from bases in Siberia suddenly appeared and scattered high explosives and what imaginative Japanese officers said were "germ" bombs...
...squadron of Russian bombers peppered Furoruji, almost 400 miles from the scene of battle. This, the Japanese announced, "differed radically from the border affair" and was going too far. If the Russians do not stop dumping bombs deep in Manchukuo, they said, Japanese planes will carry the war into Siberia. Next day seven Red bombers took the dare and blasted Halunarshan again...
...knows for certain where that part of the border between Outer Mongolia and Manchukuo is. More important than these potential causes of the conflict, however, is the fact that the Lake Bor district lies directly across the probable line of march of a Japanese invasion into central Siberia, and on the left flank of a Russian attack on the Japanese positions in North China. Control of Outer Mongolia may be the decisive factor in a future Russo-Japanese...