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Club members now abroad include Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews who sailed for inner Mongolia fortnight ago; Gene Lamb in Tibet; Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey leading his "dude" expedition down the Amazon. Lincoln Ellsworth was last week preparing a 1932 flight with Bernt Bal-chen across Antarctica. Sir George Hubert Wilkins sailed from Manhattan last week for, it was said, a conference with Premier Benito Mussolini concerning another submarine trip toward the North Pole...
...most cursory examination of the memorial itself, however, is sufficient to establish it as a forgery. On the first page, the area of Manchuria and Inner and Outer Mongolia is given as 74,000 sq. mi. In point of fact, the area of Manchuria alone is 383,000 sq. mi. On the second page, the total investment of Japan in its "railway, shipping, mining, forestry, steel manufacture, agriculture, and cattle raising" enterprises in Manchuria is placed at 440 million yen. This figure, however, represents only the capitalization of the South Manchuria Railway Company; Japan's total investment in Manchuria...
...Great Union. In Manchuria itself, apart from the dark doings at Harbin, the situation was ludicrous. Fortnight ago the new independent state supposed to consist of all Manchuria and part of Mongolia was named Ankuo or "Land of Peace." Almost every day last week it was reported to have a new name, but "Daido" meaning "Great Union" seemed to be the favorite...
...quite remarkable pamphlet, issued by the World Peace Movement, 108 Park Row, New York City, purporting to be a memorial addressed by Premier Tanaka of Japan to the Emperor on July 25, 1927. The so-called memorial outlines a very comprehensive scheme for Japanese seizure of Manchuria and Mongolia, the later conquest of China, and wars with Russia and the U. S. . . . I should like to ask if there is any reason to suppose the alleged memorial to be genuine and authentic...
...Chinese had eaten a Japanese baby, etc. etc.) The Foreign Office published an official statement insisting that not a shot had been fired until Japanese marines were sniped by Chinese regulars. Meanwhile the Tokyo Asahi quietly announced that thousands of new jobs were open to Japanese in Manchuria and Mongolia. The South Manchuria Railway sent a message to half a dozen Japanese universities last week that it would be prepared to employ hundreds of graduates in China this spring. It asked for lists of recommended students...