Word: chientao
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even taking into account the fact that the province of Chientao, in which Hunchun is located, has been a center of operations for the exiled Coreans who are rebelling against Japanese rule in Corea, there is significance in the realization that this case, like so many others before it, demands action that coincides exactly with Japan's imperialistic designs. Japan has already seized Vladivostok, from which it is unlikely that she will be driven by Russia; she has Port Arthur, Darien, the South Manchurian coast, and Shantung and the adjoining part of the Northern Chinese coast. The province of Chientao...
...this may or may not explain the coincidence of bandits in Chientao, and the landing of troops on Chinese soil. It is possible that there is no sinister motive whatever in Japan's acts. But whether through purpose or through chance, Japan, by this last move, has gained, and seems likely to hold, the whip hand in the Far East...
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