Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China. Their colleagues in Manchuria had got a taste of Japan's policy of a nominal "open door" with a thousand petty obstructions for foreign businessmen. Last week two of the oldest British firms in China (Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp.) began to close their Manchurian branches. Fearing a duplication in North China, the British Minister to China, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson called on the Japanese Charge d'Affaires in Peiping, Shoichi Xakayama, and offered himself as middleman in direct negotiations between Japan and China. He made his old suggestion of a ten-mile neutral...
...rerouting them over Russian tracks. Manchukuo officials woke to the fact last week that the Soviet had "borrowed" 3,200 freight cars, 190 passenger cars, 83 locomotives. The system was paralyzed, for the C. E. R. is built on Russian broad gauge, all other Manchurian rolling stock is built to U. S. standard gauge...
Admiral W. S. Sims will speak on "The Situation in the Pacific" at 7.30 o'clock tonight in the Dunster House Dining Hall. After the talk he will answer questions on the Pacific naval situation and the Manchurian conflict. Admiral Sims is an authority on naval and Far Eastern affairs...
...close of a 30-minute talk with the President in the latter's private office, Matsuoka granted a short interview to the CRIMSON. He refused to discuss the Manchurian question, remarking that he did not wish to talk about state affairs if he could avoid it. "I have agreed to make a few short speeches at private gatherings, and tonight I plan to address the Japan Society, but aside from that, my only statement about the League of Nations and Japan is that Japan wishes the League 'God speed.' I know I speak for the majority of my people when...
...appropriate frenzy, pardonable hyperbole. Nearly all the 400 million Chinese felt as strongly as Mr. Lo that China must resist Japan's new offensive to seize Jehol.* Meantime tramp, tramp, relentlessly down from Manchuria pressed Japanese soldiers numbering 60,000 at most. They were reinforced by 40,000 Manchurian (Chinese) mercenaries, but their weapons were those of the Machine Age. Tensely China, the world's most populous nation, quivered between ardor and despair...