Word: manchuria
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...find the facts in Japan and China's quarrel about Manchuria, to establish these facts with high authority, and to suggest an impartial solution, five wise Westerners went out to the everchanging East eight months...
Spain's forthright Don Salvador de Madariaga created a sensation in the pussyfooting Council by his description of the creation of Manchukuo. "which I will call quite plainly invasion of Manchuria!" Playing safe, the Council then delayed discussion of the Lytton Report to Nov. 14, which Japan's representative seemed to consider only a partial victory...
Brave and British to the core is 19-year-old Mrs. Kenneth Pawley of Newchang on the Japanese South Manchuria Railway. Several weeks ago Chinese bandits kidnapped Mrs. Pawley (a bride of three months), her two dogs (an Irish setter and an Alsatian) and one Mr. Corkran who calls Mrs. Pawley "Tinko." Last week anxious friends received a grimy ransom note, demanding $100,000 mex. (about $30,000), failing which Mrs. Pawley's and Mr. Corkran's ears would be cut off. Appended was a postscript from Mrs. Pawley...
...father, where he barked and barked. A frightened peasant reported that he had seen Mrs. Pawley hidden in a hut only 30 miles from Newchang, that she was well treated, but needed food. It was a great chance for Japanese authorities to show how much they are needed in Manchuria. The British Consul General in Mukden and Japanese Commander-in-Chief General Muto held several conferences, finally decided to pay a ransom. Meanwhile Mrs. Pawley's father received a note from kidnapped Mr. Corkran...
Came no intermediary but a letter from the bandits breathing purest Chinese patriotism. "We will return Mrs. Pawley and Mr. Corkran free" they wrote "on condition that Japan first returns Manchuria to China, otherwise we demand a ransom of $1,000,000 gold...