Word: manchuria
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...school library a quite remarkable pamphlet, issued by the World Peace Movement, 108 Park Row, New York City, purporting to be a memorial addressed by Premier Tanaka of Japan to the Emperor on July 25, 1927. The so-called memorial outlines a very comprehensive scheme for Japanese seizure of Manchuria and Mongolia, the later conquest of China, and wars with Russia and the U. S. . . . I should like to ask if there is any reason to suppose the alleged memorial to be genuine and authentic...
...President began by sending the Senate at its request the entire diplomatic correspondence that had passed between Washington and Tokyo and Nanking since the original development of Sino-Japanese hostilities in Manchuria. Secretary Stimson's exchange of views with the British Government, through Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay, terminated in an agreement whereby the U. S. and Great Britain decided to work shoulder-to-shoulder in protecting their citizens in Shanghai. Secretary Stimson also asked Japan, through Ambassador William Cameron Forbes, to make clear its stand in using the International Settlement as a base for military operations against the native...
...Press. (A Chinese had eaten a Japanese baby, etc. etc.) The Foreign Office published an official statement insisting that not a shot had been fired until Japanese marines were sniped by Chinese regulars. Meanwhile the Tokyo Asahi quietly announced that thousands of new jobs were open to Japanese in Manchuria and Mongolia. The South Manchuria Railway sent a message to half a dozen Japanese universities last week that it would be prepared to employ hundreds of graduates in China this spring. It asked for lists of recommended students...
Almost a thousand miles from Manchuria, in the sprawling, river-muddied harbor of Shanghai, greatest port in all the Orient, lay Admiral Koichi Shiosawa with eleven warships. One of them was the newest type of marine terror, the aircraft carrier Kaga, nestling 60 airplanes on her vast weird deck, smoke pouring out from her strange horizontal funnel...
Harbin. While all these things were happening in other places paunchy General Honjo and his troops were still in Manchuria and as busy as usual. Chinese resistance right down to the Great Wall was broken. Last week Japanese forces swung about and moved north toward Harbin. By so doing they threatened another international crisis quite as acute as that at Shanghai. The Chinese Eastern Railway, with headquarters at Harbin, is Soviet-controlled. Many times Soviet troops have been stationed at Harbin as a "police force." But Russia was not ready for war with Japan last week. There were...