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...there is such hope it is dim today. Year ago, when Japan seized Chinchow. 90 miles from Shanhaikwan, U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson dashed off note after stern note. Last week news of Shanhaikwan's fall was brought to "Woodley," Mr. Stimson's home, just as he was tendering a reception to the diplomatic corps. Over cakes & tea Japan's new fait accompli was discussed-but nothing more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: China Spanked | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

...Manchuria, Japanese troops celebrated the coming of their new commander by invading Jehol Province (TIME, Aug. 1). Led by bombing planes, flanked by armored trains and tanks, a Japanese force under General Suzuki swept over the Jehol border from Chinchow and captured Nanling. General Tung Fu-ting, defending general, telegraphed wildly from Nanling to Nanking for reinforcements. Chiang Kai-shek did not answer. Japanese troops resting in Nanling sent a three-day ultimatum to the city of Chaoyang, 30 miles away, their objective as a base for the conquest of the whole province. As in the original invasion of Manchuria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Provocatively Dangerous | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Earthly Paradise | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...Cheerily a Japanese aid-de-camp spoke of 'taking over Chinchow by Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 25, 1932 | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Fun & Blood | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

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