Tou Ching-lin, head of the Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh Railroad Bureau, came to see me. He told me that the task of changing the gauge of the rails of the track north of Harbin by the Russians began on September 3 and was completed on October 9. On October 12 a train from Moscow arrived in Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh. A representative of the communications commission of the Soviet government came to Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh to deliver a lecture to personnel of the Railroad Bureau. He first asked whether the staff of the Railroad Bureau understood the spirit of the Sino-Soviet agreement. He then said that if within 30 years China could manage the railroads in Manchuria by itself, control could be returned to the Chinese.

Coordinate term: elevator pitch

I passed the word along the line for the company to stand-to arms. The N.C.O's whispered hoarsely into the dug-outs: ‘Stand-to, stand-to,’ and out the men tumbled with their rifles in their hands.

And when Bloodheart dies, who will the warleaders of the northcountry remember? The ones who raid and burn in the southlands, far away from the homelands? Or the one who drove. The Hand of the Lady.