Word: bang-bang
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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Surrounded? When Cheng Shi-kang, Chinese official of the Japanese-controlled Tientsin customs, was shot to death in a movie theatre in the British Concession during the bang-bang scenes of the motion picture Gunga Din, Japanese demanded that British authorities hand over four suspected Chinese. British, claiming lack of evidence, refused. Promptly Japanese hinted they would make a "test case." Japanese companies began removing their supplies from the British and French Concessions which Japanese authorities threatened to surround, isolate from the world...