Word: mukden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Japanese Intervention. From Tokyo a cold decisive message clicked out over the cables: "By order of General M. Kawai, Chief of the Japanese General Staff, and with the consent of the Prince Regent of Japan and Premier Kato, 3,500 Japanese troops have been despatched to Mukden, [capital of the Chinese provinces of Manchuria]. This action is taken at the request of the consuls of the Great Powers at Mukden, who have asked protection for their nationals from the armies of the Chinese military leaders, Chang Tso-lin and Kiio Sung-lien, now attempting to engage each other...
...Chinese situation last week resisted all efforts at disentanglement. Super-Tuchun Chang, who has lorded it for several years in Manchuria, was evidently hard pressed by his revolted subordinate, General Küo (TIME, Dec. 7). But opinions differed as to whether he was making a last stand near Mukden, his capital, or had fled to Japan accompanied by his Occidental adviser, "General" Frank Sutton, famed British adventurer (TIME...
General Kiio Sung-lien, commander of Chang's Tenth Division, was apparently the moving spirit behind this military coup; and despatches early in the week pictured him as "imprisoning" Chang at Mukden, his capital. Later it appeared that Chang's fortunes were not at quite so low an ebb, but that his power has certainly been badly shaken...
Died. General Alexei Nikolaevitch Kuropatkin, 76, famed commander of the main Russian army in the Russo-Japanese War, until the disaster of Mukden; at Shemshurino, Russian...
...odds were too heavy. Several times, military observers declared, Chang could have annihilated the Wu army, but he always left a loophole for its retreat by way of the sea. Finally, Wu requested an armistice from General Feng. The war stopped. Peace negotiations proceeded. Chang was reported retiring to Mukden, his capital, but this seemed improbable. Peace at all events seemed possible...