Word: manchuria
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...sedate Scholar Wu buckled on again the sword of a Marshal, returned from lonely Tibet to overcrowded China and today looms potently upon the scene. Equally to President Chiang Kai-shek of China and to Marshal Wu was addressed last week a most amazing telegram received at Shanghai from Manchuria's famed General Ma (TIME, Nov. 23). For more than 40 days, according to his telegram, General Ma has been double-crossing everyone with a skill and success unrivaled even among heathen Chinese...
Acclaimed as "China's Hero" when his troops offered the only serious resistance to Japanese occupation of Manchuria, General Ma swore to defend Tsitsihar "to the Death." He received thousands of dollars cabled to him by patriotic Chinese from all over the world. Then he fled before the Japanese advance and turned up as War Minister of "Independent Manchuria," the puppet state set up by Japan (TIME, March 21). Last week War Minister Ma did not send his telegram from Changchun, the puppet capital of Independent Manchuria. Instead he traveled to the remote Manchurian frontier city of Taheiho, just across...
...that I had deserted my fatherland, I laid plans to recover our lost territory from Japan. During more than 40 days of contact with the Japanese I witnessed the events leading to the installation of the Japanese puppet government . . . and learned all their secret plans for the annexation of Manchuria...
...General Honjo [Japanese Commander in Chief in Manchuria] told me that Japan was fully prepared to resist Russia in the north with the full strength of the Japanese army, and to resist America to the east with the full strength of the Japanese navy. All schemes and plans for defense against Japan's two major potential enemies have been worked out and are ready to be made immediately effective in case of necessity...
...Aboard the Ile de France a few hours prior, Federal agents had seized $126,000 worth of imported narcotics disguised as German toys. *Repeatedly has Premier Inukai declared that Japan "wouldn't have Manchuria as a gift...