Word: manchukuoan
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Meantime devious negotiations were going on for their release, each side trying to out-Orientalize the other. At one point Manchukuoan troops attacked the bandit lair, and in the confusion the captives made their second break for freedom. But they were all caught before they had gone far. As the chase grew hotter the bandits took to land, dragged their prisoners with them on nightly forced marches. Finally, five and a half months after their capture, the ransom was paid and the three Britons were released...
...Chinese had spoken for. Furthermore, because the road was built with French money, France had a claim. Last week Japan had a solution for the tangle. It primed the puppet Manchukuo Government to try to horn in as the heir of China's rights in the railroad. The Manchukuoan board chairman of the Chinese Eastern, Li Shao-ken, loudly claimed the road for Manchukuo. He added that, though Soviet rights in the road went back no further than the 1917 Revolution, Russia has some rights. Then Li Shao-ken stepped back, his piece spoken, to let the two real...
Even as Dr. Soong spoke "the enemy" were pouring some 50,000 mixed Japanese and Manchukuoan troops across the frontier of Jehol. The Chinese claimed to have taken Chinchow, Japanese concentration point between Shanhaikwan and Mukden. Heavy Japanese fire began at Chaoyang near the border. But it will be many weeks before they can scale the mountain passes (defended by 150,000 Chinese) leading to Chengteh...