Word: manchuria
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...past several weeks the newspapers have been filled with the aggressive speeches of Soviet leaders all asserting that Russia is more than ready for any Japanese attack, that, in fact, the Soviet armies will wipe up Manchuria with the Japs and throw their mangled remains into the sea; in addition to this, the Russians have given out specific estimates of the number of troops and airplanes which they have in the Far East, thus violating that essential point of military strategy, secrecy. All this bellicose public shouting by the Kremlin tough boys shows, I think, a certain pathological state...
...shall confine myself to three proofs that Japanese action in Manchuria is not defensive...
...They have built in Manchuria more than 1,000 kilometres of railroads up toward our frontiers...
...have quite definite information that the Japanese have put 130,000 men in Manchuria, plus 110,000 or 115,000 troops of the Manchukuo Army and 12,000 Russian White Guards. . . . We have barred our frontier with a lock of steel and concrete strong enough to resist the sharpest teeth. . . . We fear no comparison with an enemy in tanks and aviation...
...Boxer Rebellion, Dr. Morrison of the London Times and Dr. Robert Coltman of the News were besieged in the foreign compound at Peking. A Chinese beggar smuggled their stories to Tientsin. In 1904, the News had a reporter traveling with Kuroki's Army through Manchuria. When Japan silenced the wireless on the London Times's dispatch boat, the News was left with the only working press craft in the Yellow Sea. Victor Lawson was more concerned with making the News a good paper than running up his circulation, but the News grew with its city...