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...Shanghai, Peiping students saw, read, roared: "Dadjang! Dadjang!" (War! War!) Patriots Are Patriots. Precisely because China's patriots are growing so patriotic, Japan has invaded Manchuria "to protect Japanese lives & property." Japanese apologists last week likened to Moscow's Third International the Chinese Foreign Policy Association at Mukden. They claimed that it is flooding all Manchuria with "virulent
...Japanese Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara, peace apostle, were the actions of the Japanese General Staff last week. Japanese planes not only bombed Chinese villages in Manchuria but ground-strafed a train on which, in his private car, rode indignant General Man ager J. G. Thomson of the Peiping-Mukden Railway, a British subject. Japanese troops if withdrawing at all from Manchuria were withdrawing last week very slowly. In British Hong Kong, Chinese mobs rushed the Japanese quarter, were restrained only by a bayonet charge of the Scotch Highlanders, kilts aflutter...
...18th of this month that the Japanese troops on the South Manchuria Railway, falsely alleging the destruction of a bridge by some Chinese, instantly started in many directions to disarm the Chinese garrisons in South Manchuria. The railway zone being soon outrun, the Japanese soldiers speedily occupied Mukden, the capital, and practically all other strategic points. Hundreds of Chinese were killed. Altogether there are now more than 14,000 Japanese troops in Manchuria. Additional forces had landed in Tsingtao, farther south in the province of Shantung, and gunboats appeared in the Liaotung Gulf. Since the news agency in Manchuria...
...good graces. But ever since the fall of the Tanaka Government in 1929, last exponent of the mailed fist in China, Japanese militarists have been gunning for pacific Baron Shidehara. The execution of Captain Nakamura was what they have been waiting for. Last week General Jiro Tamon, commandant at Mukden,* and other Japanese officers simply took matters into their own hands and acted without Cabinet authority. Baron Shidehara did his best to sit on the lid. There were emergency Cabinet meetings. Fearing superpatriots, police guards were posted at every Cabinet...
...always concluded any pacifist meeting. That is all that the Council of the League has been able to do so far in the presence of events of exceptional gravity. What a fine peace organization that is!" Army Out of Hand? Meantime, the Japanese armies continued to hold Mukden. The Japanese Cabinet expressed itself as being very much embarrassed. That, apparently, was just what the militarist faction intended it should be. The Mukden affair seemed to boil down to a struggle in Japanese politics, upon the outcome of which hinged the peace of the Orient...