Word: manchuria
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...most potent excuses for the Japanese invasion of Manchuria was the need of protection and stable government in a bandit-infested land. Last week, 20 months after the first Japanese divisions took the field, officials of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo were faced with the following facts...
...Yingkow-Kaopangtze train on the South Manchuria Railway was twice held up last week. Two white Russian railway guards were killed, the train was looted and 52 passengers carried off for ransom...
...onetime president of the Scripps-founded United Press. Arriving in Tokyo together, AP's Cooper and UP's Howard were wined and dined by all bigwigs from Prince Tokugawa down. After that Mr. Cooper visited Osaka. Shanghai, Hongkong. Mr. Howard flew in a military plane to Manchuria, interviewed Japanese and Chinese generals...
This thesis seems vindicated by the resignation of the defeated Chiang, and the termination of the menace which his unbridled hosts held for foreign interests in Manchuria. There is much pith in the remark that Japan might also have been literal about Chinese treaties if an anarchic China had been two thousand miles from her frontiers, and if her interests were as small as Great Britain's much touted Persian oil wells. But it is clear that no adult judgment of Japan's conduct can be made until the charges that she bribed the revolting Chinese governments are either substantiated...
With an estimated 50,000 Chinese and 10,000 Japanese dead, after two years of undeclared war from Manchuria down through Jehol Province into an arc south of the Great Wall, last fortnight's truce had by last week actually brought to North China what Premier Wang Ching-wei called a "breathing spell." To bind the verbal agreement, Chinese Lieut. General Hsiung Ping last week went to Tangku on the seacoast. As he stepped off his swank special train, he saw two Japanese destroyers tied at the docks. Their guns were trained on Tangku, the gun turrets manned...