Word: jehol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Araki's opinion, events have followed the Divine pattern. Last week the Japanese Army, symbolizing the Imperial Sword, was striking the last blows needed to round out Japan's imperial scheme of things in Manchuria, striking to possess the last province not yet taken, the Province of Jehol...
Purifying Politics. At Tokyo, War Minister Araki flashed off orders to Mukden last week which sent 35 Japanese troop trains thundering down upon Jehol. While far off battles raged-with Japanese victories a foregone conclusion-he could review with warm satisfaction the manner in which since last spring obstacles to "The Way of the Perfect Emperor" have melted away. Obstacle of doubt at home. Obstacle of interfering white folk abroad...
Good as goldmines are the warm oases of chill, bleak, mountainous Jehol, the buffer province between "China Proper" and "Manchuria Proper." Spouting hot springs make the oases ideal for growing opium. Opium has made vastly rich the Governor of Jehol, walrus-mustached War Lord Tang Yulin. Last week Tang's strapping big North Chinese soldiers on their small, shaggy Mongolian ponies, jogged down precipitous mountain passes to pot shot at the mighty clanking War Machine of Imperial Japan as it debouched from the railway...
...local incident." As the Japanese troops bivouacked there for the winter their victory had two obvious advantages: 1) If Japan decides to strike at Peiping and Tientsin she holds the Thermopylae through which her Army must pass; 2) if, which is more immediately likely, Japan decides to seize Jehol Province just outside the Great Wall and add it to Manchukuo, her puppet state. Japanese control of Shanhaikwan will block any effective steps which Chinese might try to take to protect Jehol...
Manchuria is found to be the Three Eastern Provinces of China, whereas Japan has contended that it includes a fourth province (Jehol) and much of Inner Mongolia...