Word: manchuria
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Although a few Chinese students have already left several of the New England colleges in order to fight in Manchuria, definite announcement has been made by C. T. Miao, president of the Harvard Chinese Students' Club, that none of the Chinese graduates or undergraduates at Harvard will leave the University at present, during the wars with Japan...
...threat: 400 railway cars of the Russian-dominated Chinese Eastern Railway were sent up from Northern Manchuria to the Soviet border town of Pogranichnaya. Japanese realized that these 400 cars could bring an entire Red Army division down to Tsitsihar in North-Central Manchuria whence a Soviet attack might be launched to drive Japan out of Manchuria...
Minister of Foreign Affairs, specializes in Far East diplomacy. His first move was to tell Japanese Ambassador Hirota that "the Soviet Government will follow a policy of strict non-interference in the Manchurian crisis," and to denounce Japan's occupation of Manchuria by implication thus: "The Soviet Government considers that the policy of military occupation, applied under whatever form of so-called protection of interests and nations, is inconsistent with the peaceful policy of the Soviet Union and with the interests of world peace...
After that Mr. Hirota and Comrade Karakhan got down to business. It took them two days to make a deal. During that time Japanese apprehension betrayed itself in Japanese press denunciations of Russia, Japanese charges that Russian troops were "stealthily entering Manchuria...
...between Russia and Japan, Manchuria will be considered as divided into two zones, Northern Manchuria and Southern Manchuria. Neither Russia nor Japan will send troops into Northern Manchuria, adjacent to the Soviet frontier, "unless unexpected events occur." So long as Japan confines her military action to Southern Manchuria, where her chief interests lie, the public declaration of Comrade Karakhan will stand: Russia will keep hands...