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...coast, they will fly to Europe, probably by way of Greenland or Iceland, thence through Central and Southern Europe, Asia Minor, Arabia, India, China, Japan; and home by way of Alaska. This itinerary will cover 27,000 miles, nonrecognition of the Soviet Government precluding the much shorter route through Siberia...
North of Eastern Siberia, an island 70 miles long, 40 miles wide, consisting chiefly of naked rocks, and inhabited normally by nothing but polar bears, is claimed by Russia, Canada, the United States; and there is a possibility that Japan may come into the controversy...
Harold Noice, a Canadian, left Nome on Aug. 3 on the schooner Donaldson, to relieve Crawford and place another man on the island. The Soviet authorities of Siberia plan to capture the relief party and the Crawford " settlement...
...most important item on the agenda is the transfer to Japan of the northern half of Sakhalin Island, property of the Soviet Government. This island, known to the Japanese as Karafuto, is situated to the east of Siberia and to the north of Yezo, northernmost island of the Japanese Empire...
...serious nature was put forward. Marshal Pilsudski was born of noble parentage in 1863 during the insurrection which was finally put down with great cruelty by the Russians after the Polos had appealed in vain to Europe. He was educated at Vilna and Kharkow, was deported to Siberia (1887-1892) for alleged complicity in a plot to assassinate the Tzar. His sympathy became definitely socialist after this and he was active in many movements for the emancipation of Poland, and soon became the leader of the Socialist party at Lodz. Here he founded the Kobotnik (Workman) - still the organ...