Word: chinchow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Traveling last week from Peiping to Mukden, onetime Manchurian Capital, members of the Earl of Lytton's League of Nations Commission were saluted at Chinchow by White Russian troops acting as railway guards for the Japanese...
...Cheerily a Japanese aid-de-camp spoke of 'taking over Chinchow by Christmas...
Japanese generals and even privates had almost the most fun of their lives last week. It was fun to see Chinchow. the last Chinese stronghold in Manchuria, abandoned by 84.000 Chinese soldiers so intelligent that not even the word "Motherland" could make them pause to discharge their 58 pieces of artillery or to fire their 8,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition...
...Japanese columns swung into Chinchow it was fun to see the Chinese populace, yellow if ever a populace was, waving Japanese flags hastily home-made during the night to appease the Japanese conquerors, men who still fight for the word and substance of "Glory...
...fun?for the whole Japanese people?to read in the papers that nine potent Chinese Generals in various parts of China had denounced the brand new Chinese Government at Nanking formed fortnight ago by Premier Sun Fo, blaming it for failure to prevent the Japanese capture of Chinchow and threatening the very life of the new Government, which might fall at any time...