RUSSIA-CHINA: Mantell Emerges

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Round the greying temples of a tough, old-school Erie Railwayman, the subsiding Russo-Chinese crisis spun anew last week, seethed up into a furious quarrel. In the U. S., friends of Railroader John J. Mantell grinned and were not surprised. They had rather thought last April, when he went out to China as Railway Advisor to the Nationalist Government, that something violent might happen and that sooner or later "J. J." would turn out to have had a hand in it.

Something big and violent did happen. Not...

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