Word: manchuria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvey J. Howard, American kidnapped by bandits in Manchuria (TIME, July 27) was located in a bandit camp. An emissary of General Feng, Chinese Christion soldier, went forth to negotiate for his release-saying it might take a month...
This favorable impression was quickly dissipated when news came from Manchuria that Morgan Palmer, U. S. citizen from New York State, had been killed while helping the inhabitants of a village near his ranch to beat off a horde of brigands. At the same time the brigands seized the person of Dr. H. J. Howard, eye specialist of the Rockefeller Hospital in Peking, who was visiting Mr. Palmer at his ranch, dragged him to their mountain lair, since when nothing has been heard of him. Mr. Palmer's mother, Dr. Howard's son, one Harold Baldwin (formerly...
...candid, cluttered journal of Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, a young man born in Japan of Russian-Scotch-Spanish-Italian-English-Finnish-Swedish ancestry. He is an Oxford intellectual, serious-minded, he feels, but is engaged for the present with a Major Percy Beastly on a mission to Manchuria for the British War Office. In the life of Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, wars and missions are very unimportant indeed: He spends a lot of time thinking about Life and Death, writing or making jokes about them. Nothing is very important...
...after General Baron Tanaka had declaimed his Americanophile sympathies, Count Michimasa Soyejima. Tokyo Publisher, who will speak at a round table conference at the University of Chicago this month, saw war - though not a Japanese-American war -within ten years. He argued: "The interests of Japan and Russia in Manchuria are opposed in so many respects that the conflict is inevitable. War with America is physically impossible, were there cause, but war with the Soviet is possible and probable. "China will join Russia against Japan because of her resentment over the 21 demands.* . . . "Japan made a big mistake in recognizing...
...Demands were made on China by Tapan on Jan. 18, 1915, were allegedly to secure: 1) China's recognition of arrangements made between Japan and Germany relative to German rights in Shantung and Kiaochow. 2) The consolidation of Japanese hegemony in Manchuria. 3) Control of China's iron output. 4) The military superiority of Japan. Subsequent events proved the above fears largely unfounded...