Word: manchurian
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...Manchurian railways except the Soviet-controlled Chinese Eastern are either openly Japanese-operated or under Japanese control?...
Elderly Japanese read the papers through their spectacles last week and realized that there are more ways of fighting a war than the winning of battles. Manchuria troops moved out of Mukden almost without opposition and occupied the village of Lanchihpu. Military conquest of the three Manchurian provinces? Heilungkiang, Kirin, Fengtien?was almost complete. Behind a shield of Chinese puppet officials, Japanese authorities were rapidly turning the entire district into a Japanese colony...
...Manchuria and Japan. There exists in the Japanese army an ultranationalistic politico-religious society of younger officers, so secretive that foreign correspondents do not even know its name. Avidly have these officers yearned for the conquest of Manchuria. It is they who assembled the 300 Incidents, a list of Manchurian insults to Japan widely publicized in the Japanese press. Last summer a delegation of these younger officers called with their list on Premier Wakat-suki, Foreign Minister Baron Kijuro Shi-dehara, Finance Minister Junnosuke Inoue and begged...
...fight a modern army, but China has one terrible weapon, the boycott. An effective boycott of Japanese goods would be catastrophe. This reasoning impressed elderly Japanese generals, but not the younger officers. They waited for a 301st Incident. They got it with the execution of Captain Shintaro Nakamura by Manchurian troops (TIME, Sept. 28). Start officers kicked over the traces and took matters into their own hands...
...press conferences had come a group of correspondents, vaguely hopeful that the State Department's sphinx might say something and permit quotation. What did Mr. Stimson think, they asked, of reports that the Japanese Army had just launched a major offensive against Chinchow, the last Manchurian stronghold still in Chinese hands? Were the League of Nations...