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...Pretty were a new set of postage stamps, issued for Manchoukuo last week. some bearing the portrait of Japan's Puppet Henry Pu Yi, others illustrated with Manchurian scenes. During the week Manchoukuo paper money made its first appearance. Also Japan made a bow to U. S. public opinion by appointing as an "adviser" to the Manchoukuo Government enterprising U. S. Citizen George Bronson Rea. "He is the publisher of The Far Eastern Review of Shanghai," remarked the Associated Press, "and is a stanch defender of Japan's policy in Manchuria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Murder, Muto & Manchuria | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

When the Japanese set up their puppet Manchurian state called "Manchoukuo" (TIME, March 21), they claimed that General Tang brought his vast, wild territory into the new state at that time. More recently General Tang has shown a disposition to consider himself loyal to the Chinese Government represented in Peiping by young Marshal Chang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Rape of Jehol? | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...William Waldorf Astor, eldest son of Lord & Lady Astor. Promptly U. S. Delegate Major General Frank McCoy volunteered to send with Mr. Astor his aide, Lieut. William S. Biddie of Portland, Ore. (no kin to Philadelphia's Biddies). By airplane Scouts Astor & Biddle left for Tsitsihar, flying over Manchurian steppes infested with Chinese soldiers and bandits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHURIA: Astor & Biddle | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...person unknown dynamited the Harbin power station, plunged this major Manchurian city into affrighting darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHURIA: Astor & Biddle | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...Traveling last week from Peiping to Mukden, onetime Manchurian Capital, members of the Earl of Lytton's League of Nations Commission were saluted at Chinchow by White Russian troops acting as railway guards for the Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Earthly Paradise | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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