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...odds on Peace in the Far East rose sharply last week. Japan and Soviet Russia had virtually reached the end of their huge haggle over the famed Chinese Eastern Railway. This road meandering for 1,000 mi. across the upper half of Japan's puppet state Manchukuo cost Tsarist Russia $400,000,000 (preWar) to build. Its normal annual profit from 1924 to 1930 was nearly 20,000,000 gold rubles* a year. Even in 1933, after Japan had seized Manchuria, it earned 11,500,000 rubles. It was shorter, by 3,300 mi., than the Trans-Siberian Railroad...
...train roared away to the East Prussia in which Hindenburg was born and in which last week he died. It was being ravaged and invaded by the Tsarist armies of Generals Samsonov and Rennekampf. The Russians outnumbered the German defenders under General von Prittwitz nearly two to one. They had scared him so badly that he had telephoned to the German Supreme Command a panicky proposal for withdrawal which cost him his post...
...brilliant Lieut.-Colonel named Max Hoffman. When the new commander arrived from Hanover, Col. Hoffman explained to Hindenburg and Ludendorff a supremely bold plan of counterattack which they proceeded to make their own. In Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War Col. Hoffman had seen the appalling lengths to which Tsarist inefficiency could go. He was able to believe and convince Ludendorff that the Russian wireless which kept flashing to St. Petersburg the intended moves of Generals Samsonov and Rennekampf "in clear" was not attempting to deceive the enemy, as other German generals thought, but was blunderingly giving away the whole...
Verse of a vigorous order that never pretends to be poetry. Efficiency Expert sometimes puts its matter in neat nutshells, as in this discussion of the Tsarist Russian debt...
...Communist Party Congress in Moscow, Jew Kaganovich said he had received fraternal greetings from the Communists of Berlin. "To them I say fight hard for a Soviet Germany!" he shouted. "We too struggled underground for a long time. We, too, were arrested. Our people, too, were whipped during the Tsarist regime. We fought...