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Some reasons why Count Uchida thought that Marshal Chang will not return from Peiping (where he lay sick) to Mukden...
...Japanese bombing planes let go with terrific moral & material effect on the barracks of Chinese soldiers at Chinchow, the base to which these remnants of Marshal Chang's Manchurian Army had retreated from Mukden...
This pretense grew too thin even for the London Times, traditionally friendly to Japan. "Granted that the Japanese troops in Mukden exceeded instructions," rumbled London's old Thunderer, "are they to continue to exceed them without any effective check from Tokyo until the Chinese surrender or explode...
Reaching Moscow from Peiping and Mukden over the Trans-Siberian Railway last week, Upton Close, modern Oriental historian, told the New York Times correspondent : "Foreigners in Mukden agree that the Japanese attack [TIME, Sept. 28 ct seq.] was premeditated, unprovoked and carried out with extreme ruthlessness for the purpose of striking terror among Chinese forces everywhere. . . . The Japanese intend to colonize Manchuria...
Inner Mongolia by means of puppet governments of servile Chinese. . . . Mukden was almost a dead city when I left. The Japanese had closed the banks and Northwestern University, and huge numbers of the Chinese population had fled...