Word: dairen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Thirteenth and Fifty-second Chinese Armies embarked on U.S. transports at the extreme south of China and headed up the coast to Manchuria. So far forbidden by Russia to land at the theoretically international port of Dairen, some will land at nearby fishing ports; others will land below the Great Wall and walk into Manchuria. They will either meet Russian policy face to face, or glimpse its retreating back. Under the Sino-Russian treaty of August, Stalin promised to withdraw his Red Army from Manchuria on or about Nov. 15; now it looks as if the Central...
Port Arthur will become a Russian naval base-but the Chinese navy, when there is one, will have access to it; civil administration of the port will be Chinese. Russia gets the use of another port, Dairen, on equal terms with China; the harbor master will be a Russian...
...treaty states that the Dairen grant by China is made "in view of the fact that the treaty of friendship and alliance has been concluded between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Chinese Republic, also of the fact that the U.S.S.R. has guaranteed respect for Chinese sovereignty of the three eastern provinces as an inseparable part of China...
...When news of the Russian terms to China reached the U.S. delegation at Potsdam, they insisted that the Chinese Eastern and the South Manchuria railroads become common carriers, free for all nations to use. The U.S. also insisted that the Open Door policy apply to Port Arthur and Dairen. Russia agreed...
...Twentieth Bomber Command, based in western China, marked the day by blasting an aircraft factory at Mukden and the port of Dairen, and shooting down 26 Jap fighters - a record for B-29 missions...