Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their hour of triumph the Chinese Nationalists broke with the Soviet Govern-ment (TIME, April 25, 1927) which had so largely financed their successful revolution. Comrade Blücher returned to Moscow. His assignment last week to command the Soviet Eastern Army, massed along China's Manchurian frontier, was a shrewd, logical stroke, well calculated to shake Chinese morale...
Swift to act, Comrade Blucher established his military headquarters at Novosibirsk. 1,500 miles from the Manchurian frontier, surveyed the situation. Soon he announced that the Red Russian positions were being constantly harassed by White Russian (ex-Tsarist) mercenary troops in the pay of the Chinese. Soon subordinate commanders on the Soviet front received this telegram from their new Generalissimo: YOU ARE DIRECTED TO EXTERMINATE ALL WHITE RUSSIAN FORCES WHICH ARE MENACING OUR LINES...
After smouldering for a month the Russo-Chinese crisis (TIME, July 22, et seq.) was flaring up again. At Moscow, telegrams from Soviet commanders on the Siberian-Manchurian frontier complained to Dictator Josef Stalin of provocative and belligerent raids by Chinese soldiers over the Russian frontier. Plainly the field commanders on both sides were spoiling for a declaration of war. But President Chiang and Dictator Stalin are both cool, calculating...
...five-hour fight 22 miles from Manchuli, the frontier city where preliminary Russo-Chinese peace parlying recently broke down. Killed: two Chinese, twelve Russians...
...clash between Soviet Russians and a force composed of Chinese and White Russians near the frontier town of Pogranichnaya. Wounded: twelve Chinese, two White Russians, five Red Russians...