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Finance Minister H. H. Kung gave a reception. Social Welfare Minister Ku Cheng-kang and Minister of Education Chen Li-fu took part in the conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Chungking Meeting | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...embarrassing position. Having virtually granted Japan belligerent rights in China in return for the privilege of discussing the Tientsin issue in Tokyo, he last week gave way on the point which originally caused the Japanese Army to blockade Tientsin's foreign Concessions. Last April 9, Cheng Shi-kang, manager of the Japanese-controlled Tientsin customs, was shot while watching others shot in the film Gunga Din. Mr. Cheng was neither the first nor the last Japanese hireling to be assassinated, but he was no ordinary puppet. Most of the decrepit Chinese who have sold out to the enemy command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Concession on Concession | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Kwantung Army, is a law unto itself. In 1931, when it decided Manchuria was ripe for plucking, it manufactured the "Mukden Incident" and marched in from Korea, much to the surprise of the Tokyo Government. In Manchukuo it runs the whole show, bossing the Government of Emperor Kang Teh (Henry Pu Yi) and owning or controlling every major industry. Many Kwantung officers deplore the Japanese invasion of western China, believe that the destruction of the Russian menace that hangs forever over Japan's head should be the most important item on the Japanese agenda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTER MONGOLIA: Frontier Incident | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Surrounded? When Cheng Shi-kang, Chinese official of the Japanese-controlled Tientsin customs, was shot to death in a movie theatre in the British Concession during the bang-bang scenes of the motion picture Gunga Din, Japanese demanded that British authorities hand over four suspected Chinese. British, claiming lack of evidence, refused. Promptly Japanese hinted they would make a "test case." Japanese companies began removing their supplies from the British and French Concessions which Japanese authorities threatened to surround, isolate from the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Incidents | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...prominent member of the Army's radical Kwantung Clique, who conquered and now rules Manchukuo; the fabulously rich men who own the Houses of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura, firms that control 62% of the total wealth of Japan (Mr. Gunther calls them "Men of Yen") ; Emperor Kang Teh (formerly Henry Pu-yi) of Manchukuo, "least consequential monarch on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: Almanac de Gunther | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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