Word: manchuria
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...Secondly, he was prompted by personal motives. Manchuria was his ancestral home, and it was only natural that he should be specially interested in what was happening in this region. Moreover, every undertaking given to the Manchu Imperial Family in the Abdication Agreement had been wantonly violated. The pension to be paid to him by the Republic had been canceled. His private property had been confiscated. He had been treated with studied insolence by the Kuomintang. And the ancestral tombs had been violated and rifled, without any attempt to bring the perpetrators to book or to secure the recovery...
...romantic. Years ago a cheap Chinese photographer had a certain young Chinese woman as handy girl around his studio. Buyers of obscene postcards were attracted by her looks. She was passed up to Mr. Henry Pu Yi and on to the Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang who then ruled Manchuria. Meanwhile she was fast becoming famed Miss Butterfly Wu of China's Hollywood. One night, after the Young Marshal had given orders that he was not to be disturbed in Miss Wu's theatre, his frantic Chinese officers discovered that Japanese troops were attempting to seize his capital...
...exhibition was first projected, sly Quo Taichi, Chinese Minister to London, pulled wires to have the Earl of Lytton made chairman of the committee. British museum authorities forgot that he was the same Lord Lytton who sponsored the 1932 League of Nations report condemning the Japanese rape of Manchuria (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932). Though a whole commission went to Japan seeking Chinese treasures for the London show, Japan at first churlishly refused to send a single pot. Well satisfied, the Chinese Government not only lent the Manchu treasures but sent a corps of light-fingered experts to pack and unpack...
CHINA'S MILLIONS - Anna Louise Strong-Knight ($2.50). Revised edition of a graphic, eye-witness account of Chinese Revolution of 1927, carrying the record to 1935, incorporating new matena on the Chinese Soviets, the Japanese advance into Manchuria, developments of the Kuomintang...
...North China to declare for either Japan or China. Last week Japanese Army men warned the North China banks not to deliver the silver to Nanking. Slowly maturing was the Japanese-inspired plan for five provinces of North China to declare themselves independent of Nanking, as four years ago Manchuria...