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...Russia can't afford to fight but Japan will force her to do so because she wants to safeguard her position in Manchuria. It is hard to tell what the objectives of such a struggle would be. Japan may be trying to set up a buffer state in Eastern Siberia. This would be difficult, because the population of this state would be almost entirely Russian...
...Feverish preparations are now going on in Russia to withstand the Japanese plans. Russia has double-tracked its Siberian railroads; it has sent colonies of men into Siberia. But Russia's great difficulty is that it is too far away from the seat of trouble, Northern Manchuria...
...records and baby on to the ice. Most important, they got off a little radio sending set with batteries. With a huge glop the Chelyuskin followed the chief steward to the bottom. Even before they set up their tents, the Russians radioed the bad news out. From North Cape, Siberia, 155 mi. away, 60 dog teams mushed off to Professor Schmidt's aid through a screaming blizzard. Rescue planes waited in their hangars for the blizzard's end. Next day, snug on his ice floe, Professor Schmidt told the world: "The sky cleared last night and we took...
...Moscow strong-jawed General Vassili Blücher, commander of Red troops in Siberia, spoke just as bluntly to the All-Union Communist Party Congress, and made no retractions afterward...
...share. Twice recommended for the Cross of St. George, she was wounded, captured by Kurds, shellshocked. When the Revolution broke the Bolsheviks caught her in a hospital at Kazan, threw her into prison. Rescued by Czechoslovaks who had joined the Whites, she shared the retreat of the Czechs across Siberia, escaped from Vladivostok to Japan...