Word: kondo
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...corner of the night club from which the pear core had been thrown was meanwhile ransacked by Japanese military police who said they were looking for "traces of pear peelings." Abjectly the Chinese night club proprietor made written apology to the Japanese, but by this time Rear-Admiral Eijiro Kondo, Commander of the Shanghai Special Japanese Marine Corps, was clearing his ships for action and in Tokyo the Emperor was closeted with Japanese Navy Minister Osami Nagano while the Government's press spokesman cried: "Our indignation knows no bounds...