Word: changkufeng
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Japan had no claims north of the Tumen until she took over Manchukuo six years ago. The boundary of Manchukuo joins the Tumen somewhere near Changkufeng Hill and recently the Japanese decided that the hill would be nice to hold. The Manchukuoan border was easy to argue about, since it was fixed by the Sino-Russian treaty of 1886 of which Russia holds the only known copy (China's copy was unaccountably lost). So fortnight ago the Japanese seized the hill. The Russians fought back and all last week Japanese communiqués were filled with accounts...
...aggravation, unfortunately, had little to do with the case. The Tumen River forms the northeastern boundary of Korea, a country which Japan has held since 1910 when she snatched it from Russia's aspiring grasp. Near the point where the Tumen flows into the sea lies Changkufeng Hill, a prominence which has unusual military importance since to the east it commands Posieta Bay which is of naval importance to Russia. To the south-west it commands the coast in the vicinity of Rashin, a Japanese naval base...
Although Japan has consistently tried to minimize recent Japanese-Russian clashes on the border of Siberia, an engagement, amounting to full-dress warfare occurred last week at disputed Changkufeng Hill close to the point where the Soviet-Man-chukuo border reaches the Sea of Japan. Terse Moscow communiqués said the Japanese had been "defeated," that the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires in Tokyo had been ordered "to lodge with the Japanese Government an energetic protest and to draw its attention to the gravest possible consequences of the actions of Japanese militarists. ..." A detailed Japanese official communique described...