Word: manchuria
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Just outside Mukden, somebody blew up a bridge on the Japanese controlled & protected South Manchuria Railway. Japanese blamed it on the Chinese. Chinese swore (and many foreign observers believed them) that Japanese troops blew up the bridge to provoke a crisis. No matter who started it, Japan struck hard and fast. Advancing under a rattling machine gun barrage, Japanese troops swarmed out of the Japanese concession in Mukden and seized the city proper. Under orders from General Jiro Tamon, troops moved up the line and took virtually every city on the South Manchuria Railway along its 693 miles...
...good little man with a drooping mustache, a little round head and a little round stomach was moving across Manchuria last week in a bright yellow private car, with a brand new contract in his baggage. Every time the train stopped hundreds of devout Chinese banged their heads against the sides, the window panes, the brake rods, hoping to receive virtue through their bumps. The good little man was the Panchen Lama who has sometimes been called the Buddhist Pope.* His contract was with the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek to become a public relations counselor to fight...
...great is the influence of the Great-Wise -Priest -Who -Guards-the-Nation-&-Spreads-Culture that the Nationalists are counting on him to bring back to China the rich province of Manchuria now split between Russian and Japanese spheres of influence...
...London, experts inspected the remains of the shipment of Manchurian partridges but no more poisoned birds were found. Sportsmen advanced a new theory. In Manchuria hunters are in the habit of poisoning the carcasses of partridges with strychnine and leaving them on the ground as bait to catch rare foxes without spoiling the fur. One of these bait birds might have found its way to Lieut. Chevis' dinner table. But what about the HOORAYS of J. Hartigan...
Tastefully, tactfully Count Uchida said last week: "My policies are three: preservation of Manchuria from civil war; an open door to trade and enterprise; and maintenance of Japan's treaty rights...