Word: jehol
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...Manchukuo (the three provinces of Manchuria with Jehol added) was the well-trained Kwantung Army*(see THE WAR). Its known 900,000 (600,000 Japs and 300,000 puppet troops) had probably been increased to 1,000,000 by recent arrivals from China proper. Allied statesmen had long feared that the Kwantung Army would fight on, even after the home islands were conquered, had hoped that direct orders from the Emperor would persuade it to lay down its arms...
...placating the Japanese. He failed to stand in their way in 1931, when they grabbed at Manchuria. He failed to back up the courageous Chinese Nineteenth Route Army when it fought against Japanese invaders of the Chapei district of Shanghai in 1932. He let the northern province of Jehol fall into Japanese hands...
...Jehol. 2. French Indo-China. 3. Titi-Pu. 4. Formosa. 5. Spratly Islands...
...first victim her husband, Prince Fan Chulchab of Outer Mongolia, whose Soviet connections she promptly betrayed to Japanese officers in Dairen. She was credited with inducing Henry Pu-yi to become the Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo, with having fought alongside Japanese troops in their 1933 campaign in Jehol. After this campaign, in which she was supposed to have been wounded, she conferred an honor on herself, called herself the "Joan of Arc of Jehol...
...believed that Chinese soldiers stationed nearby had fired the shots and soon the two contingents were flat on their bellies, peppering each other. This was exactly the "incident" the Japanese Army had been waiting for as an excuse to extend its control south and west of the province of Jehol, occupied in 1933, to the remaining North China provinces of Chahay, Hopei, Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung. Spurning Chinese offers to investigate the clash, Japanese commanders swung their big guns on Peking itself-and the war in China...