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Half a million solid gold Russian rubles ($250,000) soothed Viceroy Li's palm before he consented to a means by which Russia might build her imperialistic railway across what was after all part of China. Created was a dummy Russo-Chinese Bank which built the railway chiefly frorn the proceeds of bonds sold to small, thrifty Frenchmen who, 37 years after, are still screaming for their money...
...eventually built, the railway not only spanned North Manchuria, but branched off from the Russian-built junction, Harbin, to traverse South Manchuria and end at Port Arthur. That fatal branch, the great Imperial Russian Minister, Count Witte, later admitted, largely provoked the Russo-Japanese war. Japan, when she had whipped the Russians, seized their southern branch from Port Arthur as far up as Changchun (140 miles below Harbin) and made it her own great, imperial iron road, the Japanese South Manchuria Railway...
With no settlement in sight and Russo-Japanese feelings tense over the Chinese Eastern Railway, the Kronotsky incident left Russians inflamed. Still more crabbed was Hajime Suritate, head of the Kakumeiso reactionary organization in Tokyo. Brooding the fate of his compatriots on the cape, angry Hajime broke into the office of Soviet Commercial Attache M. Kotchetov with a large glittering sword in his hand. Shrilling Japanese imprecations, he poked his sword through the windows, chopped up the office railings, hacked at the desks, made ineffective swipes at the office staff before retiring to the police station and giving himself...
...waited nervously for the train to take her from Chicago to her summer home in Santa Barbara, Calif. With her were a Negro nurse, a quantity of milk, a newly adopted son aged five months. In the corridor stood Husband Mitchell, discovered by newshawks despite the best efforts of railway officials. While Mrs. Mitchell pounded on the stateroom door, shouting to him to say nothing, Mr. Mitchell said he had "no idea" what the baby's name would be, boasted: "He's perfect, but he'll be more than perfect when we get some California...
Falling safety bars at a railway crossing between Amsterdam and Haarlem struck an automobile bearing ex-Kaiser Wilhelm. In time's nick his chauffeur inched the car out of the way of a hurtling locomotive...