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Chapter 97 – The Sino-Soviet Conflict

In mid-July, Shizu, along with several other maids, servants, and guards, departed for America by ship ahead of me.
They were to meet me at my destination when I arrived by air.

According to the plan, Shizu and the others would arrive one week before I did, join up with Tokita and the others who had gone ahead, and begin preparations to receive me.
If anything were to happen at that point, the entire trip could be cancelled or postponed.

Meanwhile, the political situation on the continent was shifting.
The “Sino-Soviet Conflict” had escalated into full-blown military confrontation.

Instead of Zhang Xueliang’s Beiyang warlord army, it was the military of the Republic of China—already stationed in Manchuria—that began expelling Soviet forces from the Chinese Eastern Railway (also known as the North China Railway) in early