Word: manchukuo
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...railroad in Japanese territory is an anomaly. Soviet officials realize this and are willing to sell but want much more money than financially strapped Japan wants to pay. Troop movements, Japanese hectoring of Russian railwaymen. Soviet seizure of rolling stock are just so many stages of bargaining. Already the Manchukuo Ministry of Communications has renamed the C. E. R. the North Manchuria Railway...
...Manchukuo is a paradise...
...Imperial Japanese Army comes from Heaven, loving peace, maintaining justice and suppressing bandits in cooperation with Manchukuo...
...thereafter he put on an exhibition of double-crossing unrivalled even among the Chinese. Having first received thousands of dollars from his patriotic countrymen, he then fled before the Japanese advance, then accepted a reputed bribe of $3,000,000 gold to be first War Minister of the independent Manchukuo puppet state. Next he slipped off to remote Northern Manchuria and announced his undying opposition to Japan again; this time, according to legend, accepting a few contributions from Soviet sources (TIME, April...
Rolling Stock. Russo-Japanese relations, quiet for a year, suddenly snapped taut last week at an angry squawk from the government of Manchukuo. While thousands of Soviet troops have moved quietly into line along the Manchukuan border, railway officials at the Russian end of the Chinese Eastern Railway have been quietly detaining rolling stock of the C. E. R., rerouting them over Russian tracks. Manchukuo officials woke to the fact last week that the Soviet had "borrowed" 3,200 freight cars, 190 passenger cars, 83 locomotives. The system was paralyzed, for the C. E. R. is built on Russian broad...