Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Japanese headquarters in Peiping last week it was admitted that, in the course of Japan's persuasion of China to go under her yoke, General Shigeo Fujii, long a veteran of Japanese action in China and credited with the founding of the Japanese controlled Manchukuoan Army, had been murdered by his own men, mutinying to fight against Japan. Killed by other Manchukuoan mutineers was the Japanese-controlled General Liu Kwei-tang. Later in the week came word that the entire Second Division of the Manchukuoan Army led by its Commander Yin Pao-san, and Chief of Staff...
...reinforcements pouring all week long through Peiping, put the total Japanese force in North China under Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki at well over 90,000 men. Through driving rain and mud hip-high to the short-legged Japanese, lines were pushed straight through to Kalgan in Chahar Province, giving Japan final control of the vitally important Nan-kow Pass and Peiping-Kalgan railroad, the line that Japan must have if she is to control North China (or ever attempt to attack Russia through southern Siberia...
...week's start, after 54 days of fighting, the estimated 200,000 Chinese troops defending Shanghai held every ad vantage, drove Japanese troops back at several points, at one time actually forced a fleet of eight Japanese transports to seek safety farther down the river. Day after day, Japan's long-heralded Big Push was postponed, finally got under way at week's end, with small success. Although the Japanese struck on a wide front, apparently with all the force they could muster by air, from the water and on land, the Chinese held firm, lost...
...Japan's naval blockade spread last week to include all 2,150 miles of the China coast, omitting British Hong Kong, Portuguese Macao, and internationally crucial Tsingtao, though by week's end no important ship had yet been stopped or sunk...
...direct connection to Moscow) a Soviet air line was reported suddenly established last week. Among the first passengers is expected none other than sallow Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, whose "kidnapping" of Chiang Kai-shek was one of the preliminary steps to last week's war. Naming places, Japan charged that 72 of 210 Russian military planes had been delivered to Nationalist China through Inner Mongolia last week, hinted that Russian aviators might come to serve them...