Word: ussiriisk
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...north they suffered a supreme humiliation. Governor General Chang Hsueh-Liang of Manchuria Province capitulated through his emissaries at Nikolsk-Ussiriisk, Siberia, to the emissaries of Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maximovich Litvinov. Cowed by the Red Army's raid into Manchuria three weeks ago, Governor General Chang humbly agreed that the Chinese Eastern Railway shall again be placed under the management of Soviet citizens, as it was before China booted out the Reds last summer (TIME, July 22). In return the Soviet Government agreed to cease propagandizing in Manchuria, but no Chinaman believed that this promise will...
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