Word: manchuria
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...pamphlet laying before the American public a statement of the facts and significance of the Sine-Japanese crisis in Manchuria was issued yesterday by the Harvard Chinese Students Club. The club, meeting in the Phillips Brooks House on September 26 resolved "to urge strong action and firm attitude on the part of the Chinese government, and to appeal on behalf of their country to the judgment of the world for adequate support to vindicate humanity and justice...
...While the war is being universally renounced as an instrument of national policy, the recent conduct of the Japanese troops in Manchuria, ravaging the sovereign domain of China, is an obstacle to the peace and happiness of all mankind. We, the Chinese students at Harvard University, have watched the development of the situation with particular concern, and feel impelled to submit to the world a statement of facts for its candid judgment...
...Manchuria, comprising the Three Eastern Provinces of China with an area of 363,700 square miles and a population of nearly 30,000,000, has been the paramount object of Japanese expansion for about thirty years. The South Manchuria Railway Company, a Japanese Government-controlled concern, led the exploitation of the country with a view to monopolizing all economic and industrial enterprises and crushing the interests of the Chinese themselves. In recent years, however, the Chinese have been developing their own industries and Japan felt aggrieved, as she saw they would obstruct her grandiose schemes. Not a few Japanese urged...
Markets & Manchuria. Manchuria, Mongolia, in fact all of China is to Japan what Canada is to the U. S., her primary market for manufactured goods. Undeveloped Manchuria is particularly valuable to overpopulated Japan for it lies next to Japanese Korea and is the obvious point for Japanese expansion. Mongolia, the country north and west of Peiping, produces wool, hides, bristles, human hair, sausage casings. For centuries these products have come down on long caravans of shaggy camels into China Proper-to Peiping and the port of Tientsin. But beyond Manchuria and Mongolia lies Russia. For several years the Soviets have...
Captain Nakamura. A more obvious cause is the age-old feud between China and Japan which roots in the dislike of any peace-loving, impoverished people for pushing, successful, militaristic neighbors. This feud has been fanned by China's realization of her gradual loss of Manchuria. There is a Japan Boycott Society with branches throughout China. For over a year there have been anti-Japanese riots throughout Manchuria. Last month a Captain Shintaro Nakamura of the Japanese Army left Mukden to make survey maps in the Manchurian interior. He was provided with papers giving him full permission signed...