Word: kwantung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acquisition of new land. After the Sino-Japanese War, which added Formosa, the Pescadores Islands, and the puppet Kingdom of Korea to the Empire of the Rising Sun, the earthquake of 1896 killed 27,102. After the Russo-Japanese War and the acquisition of Port Arthur, the Kwantung Peninsula and the southern half of Sakhalin, the Formosa earthquake of 1906 killed 1,228. After the Treaty of Versailles gave Japan a precious bagful of Pacific Island mandates, came the terrible earthquake of 1923 which killed 91,344. And three years ago Japan grabbed Manchukuo...
...extent of Japanese operations in Chinese territory are being left entirely to the discretion of Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto as commander of the Japanese forces in the field. . . . Continued Chinese counter-attacks are causing the Kwantung Army to lose patience." Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto lost no time in making a characteristic statement from his headquarters at Changchun: "If the Chinese abandon their challenging attitude and withdraw . . . the Japanese will immediately return to the Great Wall and devote their energies to maintenance of peace . . . but if the Chinese continue their provocations, the Japanese will be compelled to continue the present . . . operations...
Chinese patriots, burning in the safe distance of Shanghai, received comforting news. General Tsai Ting-kai, commander of China's able 19th Route Army, hero of last year's Battle of Shanghai, announced that he was moving 8,000 of his best men to northern Kwantung province where they would join other Cantonese and Southern troops and advance against the Japanese. Foreign correspondents expected this move to be more effective in blasting the prestige of Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek than in driving Japan from Jehol...
...Report asks the assembly to adopt: 1) "the Assembly recommends the evacuation of [Japanese] troops" who should withdraw into the only part of Manchuria in which they have treaty rights to be, namely, the narrow South Manchuria Railway Zone running down to Dairen & Port Arthur in Japan's Kwantung Leased Territory; 2) "the Assembly recommends the establishment in Manchuria ... of an organization under the sovereignty ... of China" but with "a wide measure of autonomy ... in harmony with local conditions." This organization should police Manchuria with "an efficient gendarmerie," yet to be created; 3) "the Assembly recommends the opening...
...Miito, far from being demoted after his resignation, was assigned to the Supreme War Council (TIME, June 6). Last week came a climax. General Miito, it was reported, is to be sent to Manchuria in supreme command of 1) the Government of the Japanese Leased [from China] Territory of Kwantung; 2) the Japanese Kwantung Army; 3) the Japanese Army in Manchuria proper and all parts of the so-called independent state of "Manchoukuo"; 4) all Japanese con suls throughout Manchoukuo...