Word: mukden
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...answer to this, the day General Nobuyoshi Muto arrived in Mukden last week to take over his duties as Japanese Commander-in-Chief and special ambassador to Manchoukuo, Chinese guerrillas staged a desperate anti-Japanese raid. Machine guns and tanks banged away all night. The raiders succeeded in setting fire to the great Mukden arsenal three times and destroyed several planes at the airport. With the dawn they vanished. Japanese bombers zoomed off in pursuit...
...bandit who made himself master of Manchuria before the breakup of the Empire in 1911, and then developed streaks of patriotism. He was extremely proud of his nickname, "The Old Tiger," which originated in his drooping mustaches and his striped mandarin robes.* In the Tiger Room of his Mukden palace he kept enormous stuffed Manchurian tigers, served cups of what was supposed to be hot tigers' blood to his guests. More important, he was one of the shrewdest, wiliest politicians in the East. Secretly opposed to Japan, he hypnotized Japanese officials for years into keeping him in power...
...exalt the Japanese official whose official responsibility was stained with the blood of Premier Inukai, it was necessary to oust last week the ''Conqueror of Manchuria," taciturn Gen eral Shigeru Honjo (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.). Orders are orders. Conqueror Honjo packed up on short notice and silently quit Mukden from which he has directed the Japanese occupation of Manchoukuo...
...ancient, crumbling Jehol. To an invader Jehol is "the key to Peiping" (once Peking) with which it is connected by an old imperial highway 144 mi. long, just right for rumbling tanks and marching feet. Last week formidable units of the Japanese Army & Air Force moved upon Jehol from Mukden and the Chinese Press screeched, "Invasion!" Meanwhile at Tokyo the bespectacled Son-of-Heaven addressed a little homily on sheep-raising to the Governors of Japanese provinces. Referring to Japan's huge imports of wool from Australia, His Majesty ventured to suggest that "Japanese themselves should grow more sheep...
Provocation, which is the first move in the game of war, was provided by Japanese assertions last week that a certain Major Gonshiro Ishimoto had been captured and killed by Chinese in Jehol. To avenge their brother officer 300 Japanese troops rushed down in two armored trains from Mukden to a point near the Chaoyang Monastery. Chinese soldiers, who enormously outnumbered the Japanese force, repulsed it after sharp fighting which lasted some 24 hours. By this time it was generally admitted that Major Ishimoto was still alive and the Japanese military announced that they would hold young Marshal Chang Hsueh...