Word: manchuria
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Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek ripped open at Nanking last week an urgent telegram from Governor Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria: "THE SITUATION IS GROWING GRAVER EVERY MINUTE. I REQUEST INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO DEALING WITH PROVOCATIVE AND BELLIGERENT SOVIET TROOPS IN AN APPROPRIATE MANNER...
...Invasion of Manchuria by 10,000 Soviet troops with 30 field guns" was reported in an official Chinese communique. Simultaneously at Washington the Chinese minister, bald, bland Dr. C. C. Wu, announced that the Nationalist government was rushing 60,000 troops "to protect our territory from violation by Russia." Fast as cables could flash the Soviet war office at Moscow denied invading Manchuria, denounced the Chinese communique as "a malicious invention to screen Chinese attacks...
Fourth Day. The sun rose at 2 a. m. The Graf Zeppelin kept north of war-troubled Manchuria, reached the sea, cut south down the Japanese Archipelago. The Japanese Government asked Commander Eckener by radio if he approved being cited "the guest of the nation." He replied that he preferred "a few hours' rest and sleep first." However, upon landing courtesy obliged him to eat dried chestnuts, dried cuttle fish, drink saki...
Facts seemed to be that severally and collectively the U. S., Britain, France and Japan had all admonished China with especial sternness. Though by no means sympathetic with Moscow, the Great Powers advised Nanking that the Chinese seizure of the Russian-staffed Chinese Eastern Railway (C.E.R.) in Manchuria, three weeks ago, was indefensible. The seizure, of course, provoked the crisis (TIME, July...
...dictators, was believed ready to keep the peace on the basis outlined in China's memorandum, but demanded that all Soviet citizens imprisoned or detained in China be instantly released. Atrocity stories reaching Moscow told of 40 Red Comrades chained and beaten by Chinese and White Russians at Pogranichnaya, Manchuria. Fired by these tales, thousands of proletarians mass-met at Leningrad and voted a manifesto: "The Leningrad workers insist that the Soviet Government take decisive steps against the haughty Chinese and the White Guard bands. . . . The workers declare that the Russian peace policy does not mean Russia is re-signed...