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While Japan was tightening its grip on Manchuria last week, a baldish, blue- whiskered dissolute Russian scoundrel-brigand was plotting to tear another strip out of the ragged map of China. In Mukden, Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune stumbled into a war council between five Mongolian princes and General Gregory Semenov and emerged to wireless his paper of a move to set up an independent state in Inner Mongolia...
...Because it failed to win the support of France, Great Britain or Italy, U. S. Secretary of State Stimson's strongly worded note citing the Kellogg Peace Pact and the Nine-Power Treaty (protecting China's independence) left Japanese army headquarters completely unimpressed. U. S. correspondents in Mukden discovered that the Japanese soldiers who punched the face of U. S. Consul Culver Chamberlain were suffering no more serious punishment than confinement to barracks. Far more exercised were the Japanese over China's increasingly effective anti-Japanese boycott. Spokesmen at the Foreign Office talked wildly of blockading Shanghai...
...things considered (from the Japanese viewpoint) probably most fun was had last week by three humble Japanese sentries patrolling the Japanese South Manchuria Railway Station at Mukden, capital of Manchuria...
...nose and forehead until bone showed white through the red, dripping wounds. When the sentries had done with Consul Chamberlain they departed grinning. Friends of Consul Chamberlain were relieved to learn that after his face had been disinfected and bandaged he was able to catch the next train from Mukden to Harbin...
...would fight. Japanese scouting planes reported two separate systems of Chinese entrenchments defending Chinchow, complete with 58 pieces of artillery strategically placed. The Chinese "First Line," a series of trenches 20 mi. north of Chinchow, aimed to stop the Japanese advance at the Taling River Bridge on the Peiping-Mukden Railway. Should the juggernaut break through, the Chinese "Second Line" consisted of earthworks and entrenchments completely encircling Chinchow. In the city (Japanese estimated) were 8,000,000 rounds of ammunition which Chinese might fire. During the week Lieut. General Tamon's forces cautiously advanced south from Mukden, easily brushing...