Word: manchukuans
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...other Chinese generals bickered about demobilizing their huge idle armies. Opportunist Feng saw a chance to carve out a little State of his own. Last fortnight he sent his well-paid, well-drilled troops against the walls of Dolonor in southeast Chahar, held by Manchukuan irregulars and two brigades of Japanese regulars. Four times they were thrown back, once demoralized by bombs from seven Japanese planes. Last week, on the fifth assault, Feng's men made a breach in the walls, swept the Manchukuan and Japanese troops across the city and out the east gate. Japanese, unfamiliar with victorious...
...army takes pity on your ignorant soldiers, and delivers this solemn command: Cease opposing the Japanese and Manchukuans. Break away from Marshal Chiang Kaishek. . . . Should you not separate yourselves from your army at an early date and become a new people, our great Japanese-Manchukuan allied army will advance...
Rolling Stock. Russo-Japanese relations, quiet for a year, suddenly snapped taut last week at an angry squawk from the government of Manchukuo. While thousands of Soviet troops have moved quietly into line along the Manchukuan border, railway officials at the Russian end of the Chinese Eastern Railway have been quietly detaining rolling stock of the C. E. R., rerouting them over Russian tracks. Manchukuo officials woke to the fact last week that the Soviet had "borrowed" 3,200 freight cars, 190 passenger cars, 83 locomotives. The system was paralyzed, for the C. E. R. is built on Russian broad...