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Word: manchukuo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the world was concerned, for the past six weeks the war between the Japanese and Russians on the border between Outer Mongolia and Manchukuo has been fought by the official Japanese and Russian "news" agencies. The Soviet news bureau, for example, killed 800 Japanese and shot down 45 planes in a four-day battle. The Japanese official releases retaliated by wrecking 100 Russian tanks, shooting down 53 planes. How much of all this was fact or fiction no one knew, for there was no accredited neutral correspondent within days of the trouble-spot. Only the Japanese wounded jamming...

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

Strategy. The region where the Japanese and Soviet Mongols are fighting is known to contain coal and quite possibly oil. Furthermore, no one knows for certain where that part of the border between Outer Mongolia and Manchukuo is. More important than these potential causes of the conflict, however, is the fact that the Lake Bor district lies directly across the probable line of march of a Japanese invasion into central Siberia, and on the left flank of a Russian attack on the Japanese positions in North China. Control of Outer Mongolia may be the decisive factor in a future Russo...

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

...Heads. The Japanese units tangling with the Mongols last week are attached to the famed fire-eating Kwantung Army, the 350,000 crack troops garrisoned in Manchukuo. The "Kwantung clique," headed by War Minister General Seishiro Itagaki and the radical young officers of the 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...

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

Arriving in Hsinking, capital of Manchukuo, Japanese Foreign Office Spokesman Tatsuo Kawai outlined for correspondents Japan's program for dealing with Western powers in China: 1) elimination of all foreign Concessions; 2) reorganization of international settlements; 3) blotting out of all anti-Japanese activities in foreign areas. Elaborated Spokesman Kawai: "The days of foreign settlements in China are numbered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Lots of Trouble | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Behind the Front. But still unconquered are tens of thousands of square miles behind the Japanese lines, regions ruled by guerrilla bands of Chinese. Since they must keep an army of 475,000 in Manchukuo, as insurance against Russia, Japanese cannot afford the manpower necessary to garrison most Chinese villages in the occupied areas. So they have attempted to set up puppet Chinese governments. Where these governments are effective the Chinese are taxed to death; there is a tax on pigs, a tax on goods-in-stock, a tax on travel, and a, tax on the movement of all commodities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: ASIA - Chiang's War | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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