Word: manchuria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trans-Pacific cables have been humming lately with a variety of war-like news from China. Disputes with Russia over Manchuria and revolts on the part of discontented generals fill the columns of the daily press until the most optimistic might well despair of the coming of the peaceful times that will be needed before China can carry out her adjustment with the Western world. Yet one inconspicuous article in the papers of yesterday probably contains more of real import for the future of China than all the fluctuations of her political troubles. That was the opening of the Yenching...
...troops unexpectedly opened artillery and rifle fire on Soviet border troops in the Grodekov-Poltaskoya district, in the Nikolsk region [on the 'eastern front' near Vladivostok]." The Chinese version of this clash described it as a "Soviet invasion" by infantry and bombing planes. The Japanese Rengo correspondent at Harbin, Manchuria (300 miles from the scene) probably hazarded as good a guess as anyone's as to what happened when he cabled : "There was hard fighting with considerable loss on both sides which continued for 20 hours...
...Japanese troops were rushed from Port Arthur up the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway to strategic positions in central Manchuria where Japanese colonists have extensive vested interests...
...President Chiang Kai-shek ordered a $1,000,000 "credit for war supplies" placed at the disposal of his field commander in Manchuria, Marshal Chang Hsueh-lian...
...British Consulate at Harbin, central Manchuria, received orders to prepare for evacuation of British citizens in the event that a Soviet offensive should actually be launched from the frontier 300 miles distant...