Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their military headquarters, located in dozens of central villages, keep in touch with each other by telephone and wireless equipment, much of it filched from the Japanese. At their general headquarters, where a "general staff" of young officers, lent by the 8th Route (former Communist) Army, veteran Manchurian fighters and college students plan widespread attacks, the Associated Pressman discovered their well-thumbed textbook on guerrilla warfare: a translation of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by the late famed Lieut.-Colonel T. E. Lawrence of Arabia...
...European country. According to Amleto Vespa, the Japanese forced him to become their agent by threatening his wife and children. Secret Agent of Japan is his account of his experiences from 1932 until his flight from Manchuria in 1936, covering his operations in Harbin, accounts of the Manchurian drug traffic, thefts, kidnapping, assassinations, torture, all of which he ascribes to Japanese army officers...
...southern Suiyuan, Captain Carlson visited famed Manchurian Leader General Ma Chan-shan, now carrying on guerrilla warfare near the border of Inner Mongolia. General Ma had supplemented his cavalry brigade with a formidable army of Mongol and Chinese deserters from forces organized by Japanese in their "puppet" states. Said Captain Carlson: "The Japanese have had no success in organizing Chinese armies to fight their battles for them. Already [General Ma] has 4,000 such converts in his ranks. While I was there a whole regiment of Manchukuoan soldiers arrived. They had murdered their ten Japanese officers and were still wearing...
...Minister of Education, to whip up the "spiritual mobilization" of the country, Premier Konoye appointed egg-bald, creamy-voiced General Baron Sadao Araki, fiery War Minister during the Manchurian campaign. At the extremity of the "extremists," General Araki is an open advocate of a campaign to strike at Russia while she is internally weak and ram her out of Vladivostok. Appointed as Finance Minister was white-haired, white-mustached, Harvard-educated Seihin Ikeda, former managing director of the vast Mitsui industrial empire...
Meanwhile the Russian Bear has awakened to the Yellow Peril and massed defences along the Manchurian border. In addition to "Siberia's life-line," double tracked railway across the barrens, a second road has been constructed 200 miles further from the border. The Russian army has 400,000 men in the East, as well as 1500 planes within flying distance of Japan's industrial cities. Caches of Munitions and food are also ready for the Soviets...