Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...north, most important theatre of war, Japan's luck was good last week. General Count Juichi Terauchi, former Minister of War and now commander-in-chief in North China, was able to send a column of 60,000 men, mechanized, well-equipped, headed by cavalry, southwest from Peiping to cut the vitally important Peiping-Hankow railroad at Chochow...
...fronts, but the city of Haichow where there was as yet no fighting at all, a seaport south of the Shantung peninsula, connected with railroads at Peiping and Nanking at Suchow. Japanese warships were off Haichow harbor, but did this mean more than the blockade of Chinese ports? If Japan had enough men to spare to land a third army at Haichow she could cut off help from Nanking to the Chinese armies of the north...
Keeping out of the streets was not enough for the harassed citizens of Nanking, 195 mi. up the Yangtze. Giving warning to all foreigners to quit the city at once, Japan prepared for a mass bombing raid aimed at the total destruction of Nanking with a dress rehearsal in which the city was bombed mercilessly for two hours, with little retaliation from either Chinese anti-aircraft batteries or planes...
...world's shipping a warning was sent that if it wished to avoid possible air bombardment all foreign ships must stay east of that line from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. A fleet of Chinese bombers was preparing to make a desperate effort to break Japan's blockade of her coast. Still another fleet of twelve Chinese bombers formed themselves into a ''suicide squad" sworn to destroy the recently established Japanese naval base at Pratus Shoals, 200 mi. southeast of Hong Kong. Each pilot, gunner and observer was insured for $10,000, the policies payable...
China's coast is 2,150 miles long, but even if Japan did not have the third largest fleet in the world, an effective blockade of China would still be a far easier move than an effective blockade of Spain. In all that coast there are just six ports with effective rail connection with China's interior north-to-south: Tientsin. Tsingtao, Haichow, Shanghai, Hangchow, Canton. Shanghai is bottled up. Tientsin Japan already controls. Blockading the other ports is none too difficult, was made a thousand times easier last week by President Roosevelt's order forbidding...