Word: manchuria
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...Japan immediately, or else the Kellog Pact will be disgraced and rendered worthless by the fighting that is going on between the two countries, both of which are signatories of the pact," declared Professor L. C. Porter of the Chinese Department, in an interview yesterday." The present activities in Manchuria are the first instances of two countries fighting that signed the pact...
...such a mild fashion that it seems probable that the League is afraid of lowering the prestige of the Liberal-Democratic party which is now in power in Japan by giving too many orders, and thereby not giving Japan enough time to assert its own authority in Manchuria." This party, however, Professor Porter believes, will find it difficult to step the activities of the Japanese soldiers in Manchuria because the military operations there are being conducted by General Tanaka, who is leader of the old militaristic party that was overthrown in the 1928 elections by the present Liberal-Democrats...
...blood was spilled directly as a result of complete inaction by members of the Council of the League of Nations faced in Geneva last week by the Sino-Japanese crisis (TIME, Sept. 28). Facts were not in dispute. Japan by her own admission had put troops and airplanes into Manchuria (which is Chinese), and these Japanese forces had spilled Chinese blood. Such spilling is war. declared China's League Delegate, Dr. Alfred Sze, at Geneva last week, again demanding that the League intervene. Resolved to keep China's Sze and the Japanese delegate Kenkichi Yoshizawa from actually clawing...
...anti-Japanese propaganda" which Japan has now ceased to tolerate. Painful no doubt to Japanese Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara, peace apostle, were the actions of the Japanese General Staff last week. Japanese planes not only bombed Chinese villages in Manchuria but ground-strafed a train on which, in his private car, rode indignant General Man ager J. G. Thomson of the Peiping-Mukden Railway, a British subject. Japanese troops if withdrawing at all from Manchuria were withdrawing last week very slowly. In British Hong Kong, Chinese mobs rushed the Japanese quarter, were restrained only by a bayonet charge...
...18th of this month that the Japanese troops on the South Manchuria Railway, falsely alleging the destruction of a bridge by some Chinese, instantly started in many directions to disarm the Chinese garrisons in South Manchuria. The railway zone being soon outrun, the Japanese soldiers speedily occupied Mukden, the capital, and practically all other strategic points. Hundreds of Chinese were killed. Altogether there are now more than 14,000 Japanese troops in Manchuria. Additional forces had landed in Tsingtao, farther south in the province of Shantung, and gunboats appeared in the Liaotung Gulf. Since the news agency in Manchuria...