Word: manchuria
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...days after His Majesty the Emperor Hirohito had dedicated a casket in Tokyo's Westminster Abbey, Yasukuni Shrine, to the memory of 531 soldiers killed in Manchuria and China since the beginning of the present troubles,* he sat down to celebrate his 32nd birthday with a large and elaborate luncheon. At 2 p. m., just when the sake bowls were succeeding the raw fish salad, the sound of dozens of clattering wooden geta disturbed the palace guards. Newsboys in checked kimonos were rushing bundles of extras to the kiosks with news of a great Japanese tragedy at Shanghai...
...182The Chinese Eastern Railway, vital link in the Trans-Siberian route between China and Europe, was cut last week 65 miles south of Harbin, Manchuria by 3,000 Chinese soldiers under General Li Hai-tsing. Ripping up the railway tracks, tearing down telegraph wires the Chinese waited until a train from Harbin chuffed into their clutches. They looted and dispersed before Japanese troops rushed on the scene. Other Chinese troops defied Japanese authority in Manchuria by setting three minor railway stations afire and gutting the city of Suifenho (reported loss...
...Japanese War Minister General Sadao Araki harangued Japanese Fascists in Osaka: "We are determined to make Manchuria an earthly paradise and nothing can stop us! There is no need to pay any attention to the Washington Nine-Power Treaty or the Peace Pact. If the League of Nations interferes we need only ask, Is the League going to disturb world peace...
...Copies of the Constitution of the State set up by Japan in Manchuria were released last week. In form the new Government is an autocracy or dictatorship, absolute power being vested in Japan's puppet, the former Chinese "Boy Emperor" Hsuan Tung ("Mr. Henry Pu Yi"). He acts, according to the Constitution, upon the advice of his chief councilors, all Japanese...
...idle to close our eyes," said the Japanese Foreign Office spokesman, "to the fact that Soviet Russia is displeased with what has happened in North Manchuria, which is considered in the Russian sphere of influence. We can understand their disappointment at seeing their domination in North Manchuria fading permanently. We certainly have no intention of attacking Soviet Russia and do not believe they are so rash as to challenge Japan...