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Across 1,000 miles of Asia's bandit-infested "Wild East" stretches the Chinese Eastern Railway, spanning Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo from frontier to frontier and serving as a short-cut for the Trans-Siberian Line between Moscow and Vladivostok. Japan has had a wolfish eye on C. E. R. ever since it was built by Imperial Russia, which retained a half interest in the road. This half interest Soviet Ambassador Yurenev offered last year to sell for 250,000,000 gold rubles (then $168,000,000). Japan insisted that the nominal buyer must be Manchukuo...
Twenty-two arsons of railway property...
Forty-two robberies of railway employes...
Japan's rebuttal to Comrade Rudy last week was drastic if not hysterical. Tokyo papers broke out in a rash of charges that Soviet employes of C. E. R. have been burning themselves out of their own railway stations, wrecking their own trains to spite Manchukuo...
...ominous, this statement read: "The Japanese Army has decided to adopt a stronger attitude than before in the event of future Soviet provocations." Meanwhile Moscow made an even stiffer threat, hurled by Soviet Vice President Kuznetsov of C. E. R. Said he: "The Soviet Government will protect the railway employes. The defenses along the border are now complete and the Soviet will not be forced to sell too cheaply. The world powers understand the danger of Japanese armaments. . . ." As the week closed, nervous Mr. Hirota's friends insisted that despite the break in negotiations he would soon be prepared...