Word: manchuria
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Lord Abbot Emeritus. Japanese public opinion continued with honest simplicity to support the Japanese Army's action in Manchuria for what it was, a land grab. But Japan has her equivalent to an Archbishop of Canterbury. Voluminous in his sombre robe, the Buddhist Elder, Count Kozui Otani, Lord Abbot Emeritus of the Great Western Hongwanji Temple at Kyoto, summoned U. S. correspondents and sonorously declared...
...mite less disorder last week (although floods & famine continued and bubonic plague broke out in western Honan) as President Chiang Kai-shek succeeded in rallying all Chinese factions (except the Communists in China's central sore spot) to fight and resist the moral wrong of Japanese occupation of Manchuria...
...China's anti-Japanese boycott movement can be ended only by Japan, by a policy based on frank and honest recognition of Manchuria as a real and integral part of China, and consequent adjustment of rights and interests claimed by Japan...
Popular fears were thus calmed but President Chiang grimly proceeded with steps to move his General Staff (and possibly later his Civil Government) inland. Division after division of Chinese soldiers marched from Nanking northward into eastern Honan and therefore toward Manchuria, toward Japan. Was China going to fight Japan, going to try to Whampoa...
Japan's standing army numbers 210,880, some 15,000 Japanese soldiers occupying Manchuria last week. Japan's trained reserve, citizens well drilled and ready to spring to the colors, topped 1,750,000. On the sea Japan has an incomparably superior navy of 798.394 tons. The entire Chinese Navy (68 ships) does not displace as much as one British super-dread-naught (40,000 tons). Japanese opinion of Chinese fighting strength was expressed by a Government spokesman at Tokyo: "if China declares war on Japan, we will simply ignore...