Word: manchuria
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...powers by condemning four railwaymen of the Trans-Siberia Railway to death for criminal negligence (TIME, Jan. 11). Last week he attempted to counteract this unfortunate impression by announcing that a special de luxe train on the Trans-Siberia run will in future make the trip from Poland to Manchuria in seven days instead of eight. The good impression did not last. Three days later news got around of an accident even more dreadful than usual...
...program of the afternoon will be opened with a description of the situation in Manchuria to provide a slight background with which to prelude the actual hearings of the League Council which it provoked. This statement will be given by Mrs. L. J. Johnson. The dramatization, which is being coached by Mrs. C. W. Putnam, will then follow, the procedure, speeches, recommendations, voting to be done just as it did in Geneva and Paris...
Japanese generals and even privates had almost the most fun of their lives last week. It was fun to see Chinchow. the last Chinese stronghold in Manchuria, abandoned by 84.000 Chinese soldiers so intelligent that not even the word "Motherland" could make them pause to discharge their 58 pieces of artillery or to fire their 8,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition...
...things considered (from the Japanese viewpoint) probably most fun was had last week by three humble Japanese sentries patrolling the Japanese South Manchuria Railway Station at Mukden, capital of Manchuria...
Earlier in the week the Japanese War Ministry had fulminated against the meddlesomeness in Manchuria of consular and military "observers" sent there by the Great Powers. Thus the bloody assault on Consul Chamberlain might have been construed as a warning, but the Imperial Government blandly described it as a "misunderstanding...