Word: manchuria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outer Mongolia and Inner Mongolia are two seminomadic lands of indefinite status, lying north of China proper and adjoining Manchuria. Last week a whooping pack of Outer Mongolian cavalry swooped into Manchuria and cut the Chinese Eastern Railway at Khailar, near Barin, where four U. S. citizens reside...
Observers feared lest this local engagement prove part of a Soviet project to coerce the chieftains of Inner Mongolia and North Eastern Manchuria into federating themselves with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics ("Russia...
...cognizance of the Chinese note. Second it stated its determination to consider that the Sino-Japanese treaty continues in force (although the expiration date is two years past) by virtue of an ambiguous automatic renewal clause. Third, it succeeded in breaking off an arrangement whereby the young Dictator of Manchuria, Chang Hsueh-liang, had agreed, last week to place himself in subordinate alliance with the Nationalists. Lastly, Chang was not only compelled by the Japanese to break his agreement, but was detained in his own capital, Mukden, by Japanese troops who clamped a censorship upon all means of communication...
...seventeen days served to enable Son & Heir Chang Hsueh-liang to consolidate his position with apparent success, so that last week he proclaimed himself War Lord at Mukden, Manchuria, and admitted that he had inherited $10,000,000 in negotiable treasure...
Soon the new Ruler of an area larger than France and Italy together and lying just north of China proper, voiced a program for the future with virile firmness: "I want our people to concentrate on the development of Manchuria and look to ourselves, not outward, for development. There is no need of our seeking to expand now or encroach on other parts of China...