Word: jehol
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...whole matter up to the Assembly." They advised the Privy Council and Emperor Hirohito that if the Assembly adopted the Report then Japan must refuse to accept it and withdraw from the League. For good measure the War Office spokesman said that Japan would intensify her offensive to take Jehol about the time the Assembly is expected to vote on the Report. Japan planned also to withdraw from the Geneva Disarmament Conference's "hostile atmosphere." Minister of the Navy Mineo Osumi said, "While we shall not challenge others, we shall accept the challenge of others...
...Master of Jehol, whose warm opium-growing oases, have made him vastly rich, is sturdy, walrus-mustached War Lord Tang Yulin. Last week he braved a Japanese offensive, buried a wife and entertained with bland, lavish hospitality two highly exalted Chinese...
...wife, in her way, was important. When the Japanese first set up the puppet State of Manchukuo they thought they had bribed War Lord Tang to come in with his Jehol and accept office as Vice Chairman of the Privy Council of Manchukuo. Later, when Tang seemed to cleave to China (TIME, Jan. 23), Japanese were mystified by his refusal of their bigger & better bribes. Why on earth should not Tang sell out? There must be some personal reason, the Japanese decided...
Last week Japanese newshawks in China triumphantly announced that they had found the reason. Tang's favorite wife, they alleged, had been kidnapped from Jehol and was being held in Peiping, a hostage of his loyalty, by China's "Young Marshal" Chang Hsuehliang. Setting out from Peiping, U. S. newshawks bumped 100 mi. over awful roads from Peiping to Tang's Capital, Chengteh...
...three hours, and she couldn't take them at all during her long attacks on Shanghai. Yet these forts were anciently equipped, poorly named, and in terrible want of men and ammunition. But just as the Japanese could not take those forts new, so their boast to take Jehol in 15 days will lead to the result that they will not conquer the province in 150 days...