Word: harbin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plunged their fangs into Manchuria last fortnight withdrew to their own frontiers last week. But in the areas they had raked and ravaged Chinese fright and confusion grew from panic to anarchy. Soldiers deserted their colors, looted indiscriminately. Hundreds of refugees who straggled into the larger Manchurian towns and Harbin, the capital, had been robbed of all their possessions by Chinese, not Soviet troops. Some were stark naked, plucked to the skin. As usual, a good many fingers had been cut off by Chinese soldiers impatient to snatch rings from old people with rheumatic knuckles...
...Chinese troops unexpectedly opened artillery and rifle fire on Soviet border troops in the Grodekov-Poltaskoya district, in the Nikolsk region [on the 'eastern front' near Vladivostok]." The Chinese version of this clash described it as a "Soviet invasion" by infantry and bombing planes. The Japanese Rengo correspondent at Harbin, Manchuria (300 miles from the scene) probably hazarded as good a guess as anyone's as to what happened when he cabled : "There was hard fighting with considerable loss on both sides which continued for 20 hours...
...Chinese businessmen and bankers mass met at Harbin, pledged defense funds to Governor General of Manchuria Chiang Hsueh-Liang, cheered reports that every male in North China aged over 17 would be drafted to fight...
...Mongol tribesmen in the region of Hurunbuir, allegedly instigated by Soviet secret agents, were reported from Harbin to have massacred 150 Chinese...
...British Consulate at Harbin, central Manchuria, received orders to prepare for evacuation of British citizens in the event that a Soviet offensive should actually be launched from the frontier 300 miles distant...