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...Islands. Soviet professors aboard the icebreaker Sedov discovered two new Arctic islands near the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia. They named them Wise and Kameniev Islands after two expedition members. They suspected their finds were part of a large archipelago. Some of the party went ashore on Fridtjof Nansen Land for a cold year's stay to operate the world's most northerly radio station...
Hollow-eyed, footsore, prematurely aged, Rudolf Kutz and Johann Mischalski stumbled into Beuthen, German Silesia last week, sought out the homes they had left 15 years before. They were World War prisoners. For the past 15 months they have made their way from a prison camp in northern Siberia through Moscow, to Kovno, then over the Polish border to Warsaw and southwest to Silesia...
...factor neither President Coolidge nor Secretary Hughes mentioned: the Soviet's determination to meet U. S. claims with counterclaims based on the use of U. S. troops against the Reds in North Russia (TIME, Dec. 9) and Siberia. Comrade Josef Stalin has declared that these Russian claims are five times the size of the U. S. claims. The Soviet Government likewise contends that any payment it makes on the debts must not be accepted as such but as a sort of "super-interest" on industrial credits it expects to receive in return...
After speeding 5,000 miles through Russia and over the new "Turksib" railway connecting Turkestan and Siberia (TIME, June 9), members of a pioneer U. S. party of tourists and newsfolk last week cabled two preliminary conclusions...
...round bonfire sun into the desert where skinny Mongolians pile up the sand to support them . . . northward into frozen ground, over mountain beds torn out by dynamite, on trestles over glacial rivers. Turksib is a translation of the Russian nickname for the Turkestan-Siberian Railroad, 897 mi. long joining Siberia and Turkestan (TIME, May 12). As Director Sergie Eisenstein dramatized modern brains coming into Russian farm country (TIME, May 19), so now Director Victor Turin tells the story of the building of the Turksib. Turin's newsreel is less interesting technically, but his approach? showing what the railroad means...