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Despatches from Yakutsk, Siberia, asserted that a Soviet Commission of Investigation has reported "the presence of about 400 tons of available gold in the 6,000 square miles of territory in the Aldan River District." Koreans, Japanese and Chinese, who have been flocking to this remote and inaccessible part of Siberia, were ordered to depart within one month by the local Soviet. Henceforth only Russians will be allowed to "work" the region, and it is alleged that they will be forced to exchange all gold mined for Soviet currency at a rate of 2½ chervonetz* ($14) an ounce. (Refined gold...
...World's Illusion towers on the European scene as a very great novelist. His concern is with the spiritual crises of deep, positive natures under the stresses and distortions of post-War civilization in Germany. Here his framework is the Enoch Arden dilemma: a War prisoner home from Siberia after six years, finds his wife married to a charitable cause. She has been transformed from a warm, passive complement to his life into an active self-sufficient woman. The pangs of their readjustment strike deeply into the lives of two women with whom the wife has become closely associated...
...millions instead of 4 billions, but he had some special difficulties of his own -notably a disagreement over the principal sum. The Czecho-Slovakian debt was contracted after the War and comprised several items including purchase of War supplies, relief supplies, flour, cash ,advances, repatriation of Czech soldiers from Siberia...
Politics must either not detain the traveler long or absorb his whole attention. Dictatorship is absolute. There is no freedom of speech, political assembly, or from arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. Deportations to Siberia still occur. People are still shot because an aristocratic emigre in Paris drunkenly mumbled sounds which resembled their name. Suspicion and espionage are rife. But the people seem happy, in the main...
Japanese. After a journey of 56 flying hours, a group of Japanese airmen arrived in Berlin from Tokyo, via Siberia, and were met in the clouds above the German capital by the Japanese Ambassador...