Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighting on the four-mile Russo-Japanese front in the Far East (TIME, Aug. 15) continued last week right up to the moment when a truce was made in general terms at Moscow. Its practical details were arranged on shell-pitted Changkufeng Hill by Japanese Colonel Goro Cho and Soviet General Grigory Shutern...
Associated Pressman James D. White cabled that he had a "ringside seat" from which he watched one of the concluding Soviet bombardments: "It was warfare in dead earnest. . . . Six-inch projectiles came over at the rate of at least six a minute. Today's cannonade removed all doubt in the minds of observers as to the accuracy of Soviet artillery. Invariably one or two sighting shots were followed by a series of direct hits. . . . At the foot of Changku-feng Hill a village blazed fiercely. Hundreds of shells had scored direct hits...
...approach the front, not close enough to see much fighting but close enough to see 37 nailed-up coffins said to contain the bodies of dead Russians, and the corpse of a big-boned white man in a grey-green uniform without distinguishing marks, said to be a Soviet pilot who had been shot down...
During the week, Mr. Saburo Ohta, third secretary of the Japanese embassy in Moscow, arrived in Tokyo, having crossed Siberia by railroad and taken ship at Vladivostok, not far from the battle line. Said he: "The central authorities of the Soviet Union are following a non-aggravation policy. After having been repulsed with heavy losses the Soviet troops will not attempt more counterattacks. During my trip through Siberia all was quiet and I saw no signs of disturbance in Vladivostok...
Since Russia's naval base at Vladivostok is frequently icebound and Rashin is an all-year port, the Soviet was already too much at a disadvantage to let Changkufeng fall into Japanese hands. This week the Russians got busy. They drove a wedge down to the Tumen north of the disputed hill, cutting off its Japanese defenders, whose only bridge across the river is higher up. Japanese officers in the area were incensed. "It is crazy," one of them exploded to a correspondent, "for the Russians to attempt to retake Changkufeng!" Meanwhile Moscow, with something at last to boast...