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Slav fishermen and Eskimos, residents on a remote island in Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska, learned last week with intense surprise from the first vessel that has visited them in 15 years that Russia, Germany, Austria, Turkey are no longer empires. When the ship's captain attempted to put to sea before all these changes had been satisfactorily explained, the Slavic peasants forcibly restrained him another day, some contending to the last that his answers to their questions proved him a liar or one gone...
Paramount in interest on the Chinese scene, last week, loomed the little Soviet steamer Pamiat Lenina (Memory of Lenin), bound from Vladivostok (Siberia) with a cargo of tea for Shanghai and Hankow. At Shanghai, a Russian woman and three Russian couriers boarded the steamer. The captain gave the woman his own cabin, saluted her as Citizeness Borodin, wife of the great Michael Markovitch Borodin, famed Soviet Russian adviser and propagandist attached to the Chinese Nationalist Government (TIME, Dec. 13) which has conquered half China...
...Canadian Arctic expedition, and, when that ship met the perils of floating Ice, it was Bartlett's prompt action that kept the party alive. Four men went off into the bitter Polar night and were never heard of again. Captain Bartlett marched across the floes to the coast of Siberia, crossed to Nome, and chartered a relief ship, in which he rescued the survivors...
Besides the oldtimers of the Canal Zone, many a Russian might recognize Mr. Stevens should he revisit Siberia. He was president of the interallied technical board which improved trans-Asian travel during and after the War. They would know him, perhaps, in West Gardiner, Me., where he was born, "chock full of energy." They might know him almost anywhere between the Mississippi and the Pacific, especially in the Northwest, where he laid out vast stretches of the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern roads. Near Havre, Mont., there is a statue to jog the memory. It stands on a bleak ridge...
Leading U. S. dailies recorded the belief of their correspondents in the genuineness of the Zurich report, described the isles of exile collectively as "The Italian Siberia...