Vladivostok Quiet After Dispatch of US Commission
E. J. Harrison reports Vladivostok calm after American railroad commission members left. City now under a military force drawn from troops, with freight congestion and scattered machinery remnants signaling the old regime’s collapse. Some accounts speak of harsh treatment by local garrison officers, but overall disorder is described as exaggerated.
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Kaiser Suppresses German Radical's Newspaper
Maximilian Harden, editor of Die Zukunft, has had his radical publication silenced for the remainder of the war. Harden is compelled to join the auxiliary civil service as a clerk.
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Russians Exchange War Weariness for Hopeful Democracy
The Vladivostok observers note soldiers remain sober while officers grow subdued after quarters were reduced. Some Russians fear Japan will seize Vladivostok and Amur, while others praise the new democratic order and view barriers to democracy as removed. The Stevens commission tours docks, car shops, and the Vladivostok terminus, with a pledge to deliver 40,000 railway cars in two years and an invented Canadian doorbell switch announced.
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