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Bumping along a shell-strewn road near Tsitsihar two days after the battle, Correspondent Frederick Kuh of United Press reported freezing corpses gnawed by carrion, piteous wounded, and short, fat, half-bald Japanese General Jiro Tamon who "punctuated his description of the Japanese victory with derogatory references to the League of Nations...
...savory group of Chinese calling themselves the Peoples Preservation Committee who seemed disposed to declare the secession of Manchuria from the rest of China. Other secessionist movements were reported (by the Japanese press) in such leading Manchurian cities as Harbin and Kirin. Finally in Tokyo suave General Jiro Minami, Japanese War Minister credited with secretly ordering the whirl wind Japanese occupation of Manchuria (TIME, Sept. 28), appeared before the Japanese Cabinet last week with a sheaf of telegrams in his small, hard fist. According to General Minami, the Chinese citizens of Harbin had just plumped enthusiastically for secession of Manchuria...
...believed them) that Japanese troops blew up the bridge to provoke a crisis. No matter who started it, Japan struck hard and fast. Advancing under a rattling machine gun barrage, Japanese troops swarmed out of the Japanese concession in Mukden and seized the city proper. Under orders from General Jiro Tamon, troops moved up the line and took virtually every city on the South Manchuria Railway along its 693 miles. In 24 hours Japan had virtual control of all South Manchuria and warships had landed troops in China Proper, in Tsingtao on the Shantung Peninsula, the old German treaty port...
...Europe's good graces. But ever since the fall of the Tanaka Government in 1929, last exponent of the mailed fist in China, Japanese militarists have been gunning for pacific Baron Shidehara. The execution of Captain Nakamura was what they have been waiting for. Last week General Jiro Tamon, commandant at Mukden,* and other Japanese officers simply took matters into their own hands and acted without Cabinet authority. Baron Shidehara did his best to sit on the lid. There were emergency Cabinet meetings. Fearing superpatriots, police guards were posted at every Cabinet...
...State Tour- nament in Memphis, Tennessee. The other two, Shields and Wood, together with Henri Cochet; John Van Ryn; Jean Borotra, who airplaned back to Paris for business between matches; Bunny Austin, balloon-trousered British Davis Cup player; George Lyttleton Rogers, a big Irishman with a hooked nose; Jiro Satoh, the champion of Japan; and Gregory Mangin and George Lott were last week playing in the greatest single event of the tennis year, "the world's championship"at Wimbledon...