Word: manchuria
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...Tokyo the Japanese Diet met briefly, passed a resolution 'in appreciation of the Army's efforts in Manchuria,' adjourned over the holidays...
While Japan was tightening its grip on Manchuria last week, a baldish, blue- whiskered dissolute Russian scoundrel-brigand was plotting to tear another strip out of the ragged map of China. In Mukden, Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune stumbled into a war council between five Mongolian princes and General Gregory Semenov and emerged to wireless his paper of a move to set up an independent state in Inner Mongolia...
...Siberia at the head of a band of Cossacks against the newborn Soviet regime. England. France and Japan supported him for a while, later he drew his pay from Japan alone. Once, with 16 men. he drove a large Soviet force out of the stronghold of Manchuli in Northern Manchuria. In 1922 he went to the U. S., spent six days in New York City's Ludlow Street Jail when a Soviet company sued him for $500,000 worth of woolens he had seized in Siberia. He claimed Japanese-British bankers had seized $60,000,000 the Tsarist government...
...crisis, Dr. Koo declared, is the presence of three different railroad systems in the region, a Japanese line, running approximately North and South, a Russian road, running East and West, and a Chinese system, built in the last ten year, which has lines over most of the territory of Manchuria. The establishment of this Chinese road put a large obstacle in the way of the monopoly in Manchurian transportation which Japan had enjoyed to a large extent previously, reason enough for Japan's actions of the past few months...
There was work for the Cabinet to do. In Manchuria, Japanese lines spread over the frozen land right up to the Great Wall, clinched their hold on all of southern Manchuria. There were reports that ferocious-looking General Gregory Semenov, who led a White Army against the 'Soviet in 1917, was conferring with five Mongol Princes about a plan for promoting the independence of Inner Mongolia. Because it failed to win the support of France, Great Britain or Italy, U. S. Secretary of State Stimson's strongly worded note citing the Kellogg Peace Pact and the Nine-Power...