Word: jehol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchuria, Japanese troops celebrated the coming of their new commander by invading Jehol Province (TIME, Aug. 1). Led by bombing planes, flanked by armored trains and tanks, a Japanese force under General Suzuki swept over the Jehol border from Chinchow and captured Nanling. General Tung Fu-ting, defending general, telegraphed wildly from Nanling to Nanking for reinforcements. Chiang Kai-shek did not answer. Japanese troops resting in Nanling sent a three-day ultimatum to the city of Chaoyang, 30 miles away, their objective as a base for the conquest of the whole province. As in the original invasion of Manchuria...
Provocation, which is the first move in the game of war, was provided by Japanese assertions last week that a certain Major Gonshiro Ishimoto had been captured and killed by Chinese in Jehol. To avenge their brother officer 300 Japanese troops rushed down in two armored trains from Mukden to a point near the Chaoyang Monastery. Chinese soldiers, who enormously outnumbered the Japanese force, repulsed it after sharp fighting which lasted some 24 hours. By this time it was generally admitted that Major Ishimoto was still alive and the Japanese military announced that they would hold young Marshal Chang Hsueh...
Only 87 miles from Peiping at its seaport, Tientsin, is a powerful Japanese garrison. Tersely the Japanese Commander threatened the young Marshal thus: "If there are clashes between the Japanese Army and the forces of Marshal Chang in Jehol then the Japanese garrison at Tientsin will have no other course but to attack Peiping...
Tang-in-the-Woodpile. Close observers realized that what was chiefly at stake last week was the loyalty of General Tang Yulin, the biggest boss in Eastern Inner Mongolia, who rules as Governor in Jehol...
...belonging to General Tang. Better for Japan than realty and opium are the three main products of Eastern Inner Mongolia, about one of which Emperor Hirohito spoke last week: wool, hides, wheat. With extreme Oriental acumen Governor Tang rushed eight motor truck loads of "treasure" from Jehol into the Italian Settlement at Tientsin last week. Thus, if General Tang sides with Japan, the Japanese garrison at Tientsin will render his treasure particularly safe. If on the contrary he sides with China, the Japanese will scarcely dare to seize treasure over which flies the flag of Italy...