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Seething with guerrilla warfare, Manchuria became Banditland in earnest last week. Civilian passenger and freight traffic was suspended on the Chinese Eastern, vital link in the railways that connect China with Europe. Among refugees pouring into Harbin, chief city on the Chinese Eastern, was Herr Kapitan Roland Strunk, grizzled veteran of the Imperial German Army...
...Gott im Himmel!" he growled. "Everywhere the people of Manchuria are expecting Hell to break loose. The Chinese forces obviously are under foreign direction [presumably Russian]. Japanese occupation of the Chinese Eastern Railway right up to the Soviet border is inevitable...
...Shanghai fighting was not a war but a defensive offensive. . . . "Japan does not desire to annex Manchuria . . . . "We have absolutely no interest in the Philippines save commerce...
Careful of their skins, the five delegates of the League of Nations Commission on Manchuria (headed by the Earl of Lytton) abandoned last week their announced intention of inspecting Northern Manchuria and taking testimony from famed Chinese General...
...everyone knows, Minseito Premier Baron Wakatsuki opposed but was unable to stop the Army's plunge into Manchuria (TIME, Sept. 28). His successor, the Seiyukai's "Old Fox,'" pandered eagerly to the Army & Navy, but the costly setback at Shanghai forced the Foreign Office to negotiate what the fighting services were bound to consider a "disgraceful withdrawal" (TIME, May 16). This, though not the fault of the "Old Fox," led him straight into a trap of Japanese swashbuckling hysteria which cost him his life last week...