Word: manchuria
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...Chungking spokesman reported that crewmen from a U.S. submarine had landed at Newchwang, Manchuria, and purchased fresh fish from the natives. To reach Newchwang, at the northern end of the Gulf of Liaotung, the submarine would have had to penetrate the string of islands off the southern tip of Japan, cross the Yellow Sea, creep past the Jap naval base at Port Arthur, lie off nominally Jap-occupied territory. Total Pacific bag of U.S. submarines to date (including twelve more merchant sinkings announced last week...
Manchukuo (Manchuria) 503,000 39,500,000 Invasion...
More interested than any other power was the Soviet Union. "We do not mind," said a Soviet diplomat to a Chinese diplomat a decade ago, "if you Chinese develop Turkestan. But if you permit Turkestan to become a second Manchuria, we must act to protect ourselves." The Soviet Union suspected Japanese designs on Soviet Central Asia itself. Also, in Russia's mind there lingered the ancient Czarist fear of British influence working out from India. To the Russians, it seemed that the British Consulate at Kashgar might be almost as dangerous as the reported Japanese advisers of Ma Chung...
...nation of "island-hoppers" who surged up from the south and established "beachheads" on what is now called Japan. In 1592, Hideyoshi, founder of the navy, used his ships to land troops in Korea, to victual their beachheads. In 1904-05, Togo aimed to reinforce the Jap beachhead in Manchuria; his brilliant destruction of the Russian fleet was incidental to the main strategy. Similarly, in 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor by naval aircraft and a few midget submarines was incidental to the main blows in Southeast Asia. Since then, from Midway to the Coral Sea, Jap admirals have risked...
Territories. Manchuria (see below) and Formosa, must come back into China. Korea must be independent. "Part of Indo-China used to be Chinese territory and there are some Chinese living there. But we have no aspirations with regard to Indo-China, Thailand or any other place of that sort." Asked whether China would claim Hong Kong (from the British), Diplomat Soong answered: "If I were a member of your Government in Britain, answering questions in Parliament, I would say 'I must have notice of that question...