Word: harbin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cocked on China, all Japan trembled with patriotic fervor last week. General elections were coming, the budget was unbalanced, the yen was falling, Government bonds were off. But about such things few subjects of the Emperor cared when Japanese arms were carving out world headlines in Shanghai, Nanking, Harbin. Flags fluttered from every Tokyo home. Troops drilled in every barracks. Full of martial memories, reservists tramped back and forth to business, pretending their umbrellas were guns. Proud Japanese fathers lectured their sons on the honor of dying for Nippon...
...none your business what doing Tia Juana stop wire fifty dollars care Chungking laundry San Francisco stop refuse cover Manchuria too cold stop advice urge Stimson urge Italian embassy. Washington urge Mussolini not protest stop gravity situation exaggerated stop war put Japan on copper standard stop dispatch today states Harbin Chinese lose five hundred, Japanese ten stop Japanese cant hold out long that rate stop Chiang Kaishek probably in new capital stop advice look west of Nanking stop didnt know there was Chinese navy stop will wire all developments at intervals stop why not advise me earlier stop could have...
...flag and bearing the emblem of U. S. Consul General Myrl S. Myers drive up to the station. Out stepped a slender, well-dressed U. S. citizen. He showed a U. S. diplomatic passport proclaiming him to be Culver Bryant Chamberlain, newly appointed U. S. Consul at Harbin. Because he speaks no Japanese, speaks perfect Chinese, knows that most Japanese know a little Chinese, Consul Chamberlain addressed the Japanese sentry in Chinese, promptly received a blow in the face...
...forehead until bone showed white through the red, dripping wounds. When the sentries had done with Consul Chamberlain they departed grinning. Friends of Consul Chamberlain were relieved to learn that after his face had been disinfected and bandaged he was able to catch the next train from Mukden to Harbin...
While Japanese papers saw Red, while the Japanese General Staff in Manchuria "proved" to correspondents by showing them dead Russians in Chinese uniforms that Moscow was aiding Ma, Correspondent Kuh asked the Japanese Consul at Tsitsihar (who was just leaving for Harbin) his opinion. Flatly the Consul said that Moscow was not aiding...