Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese noticed that Japanese soldiers also "protected" the silver reserve of the Manchurian treasury at Mukden. Fifty vaults containing the reserves of the leading provincial banks of Manchuria remained under Japanese seal and guard. Because the Mukden branch of Manhattan's National City Bank had fat silver deposits in the sealed Chinese banks and wanted to withdraw same last week, Branch Manager Lamont M. Cochran requested of the Japanese authorities that they permit Mukden's banks to open. He was ignored...
...deeply afflicted with civil war, communism, and a devastating flood, she is once more brought to face its brutality. A more complete list of calamities perhaps cannot be found in the history of any people. In creating troubles at such critical moments, Japan's militarism discards humanity itself. The Manchurian crisis deserves the close attention of the world, if the peace and happiness of mankind are to survive...
...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 by Chinese authorities, but permits mean little to soldiers who cannot read. Captain Nakamura was arrested as a spy and executed...
Minister's home. Baron Shidehara announced that Japanese troops would be withdrawn from the captured Manchurian cities "at the earliest possible moment...
...minutes to hear statements by the Japanese and Chinese delegates, expressed satisfaction that Japan would appease the situation. Knowing that his troops were no match for the Japanese, smart Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang did the best thing he could have clone to win world support. He ordered his Manchurian troops to offer no resistance to the Japanese, to pile their arms in depots. From a hospital bed in Peiping where he has been undergoing treatment, he issued a statement...