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First total solar eclipse since February 1934, at its broadest, near Lake Baikal, the shadow across Asia's face was 82 miles wide. Length of path: 8,900 miles. Maximum duration of totality: 2 min. 31½ sec. For months past the Soviet Government has been sending lecturers and demonstrators into villages along the eclipse path, so that ignorant peasants would not become terrified and backslide into orgies of religious propitiation...
...Russian arms, Russian machine guns and Russian bombing planes which have been rushed to Urga and were last week spectacularly unlimbered, Japanese-Manchurian Armies would soon have tried to sweep all before them and cut across Outer Mongolia to sever the Trans-Siberian Railway at Lake Baikal. By that slashing of a vital artery, Japan could consider that she had all but assassinated Soviet Eastern Asia and that Vladivostok, cut off from Moscow, must surrender like Port Arthur. To minimize the effect of such a thrust, if it should come, Russia is now frantically rushing to completion a Second Trans...
...present in notoriously bad condition for a major military action.* It can handle only a few thousand troops a day, provision only a small army on active service. But Russia is double-tracking at breakneck speed and, while it does, 200,000 Red troops guard the border from Lake Baikal to Vladivostok. Mean while contemplated under the Second Five-Year Plan is another transcontinental line running from Archangel to the Sea of Okhotsk, as a military backstop in case Japan does cut the Trans-Siberian...
...Mattern, tersely warned by the Soviet Government, will keep his distance above Lake Baikal. For the glory of the World's Fair he flies on, and his daring will reinforce the glib Mr. Holmes and the accommodating Areturus to publicize Chicago's latest exposition. Mr. Charles Dawes thought he would not spend any money on publicity. Mr. Rufus Dawes thought he would spend ten thousand dollars. The compromise is Mr. Mattern...
...documents originating in Japanese military circles containing plans of campaign against the Soviet Union. Japanese military circles, and not only military circles, are considering the question of an attack upon the Soviet Union and the seizure of the provinces of Primarsk [of which Vladivostok is chief city] and Trans-Baikal [west of Manchuria...