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...Alfonso XIII was driven from his throne, U. S. Ambassador Irwin Boyle Laughlin was out of town (TIME, April 20 et seq.). Last week U. S. Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes sailed for a vacation in the U. S. the day Japanese troops captured the Chinese city of Mukden...
Just outside Mukden, somebody blew up a bridge on the Japanese controlled & protected South Manchuria Railway. Japanese blamed it on the Chinese. Chinese swore (and many foreign observers believed them) that Japanese troops blew up the bridge to provoke a crisis. No matter who started it, Japan struck hard and fast. Advancing under a rattling machine gun barrage, Japanese troops swarmed out of the Japanese concession in Mukden and seized the city proper. Under orders from General Jiro Tamon, troops moved up the line and took virtually every city on the South Manchuria Railway along its 693 miles...
...shaggy camels into China Proper-to Peiping and the port of Tientsin. But beyond Manchuria and Mongolia lies Russia. For several years the Soviets have been intensively penetrating China from their side. Even before last week's flareup Japan practically controlled South Manchuria up to and beyond Mukden, but the Russian grip on Mongolia was fairly complete. Russia had turned the traffic in hides, bristles, hair back toward Moscow. Business was hard hit in Japan, Tientsin was starving. There were Japanese businessmen who applauded the seizure of Mukden, therefore, not in anger at the Chinese, but in fear...
...This feud has been fanned by China's realization of her gradual loss of Manchuria. There is a Japan Boycott Society with branches throughout China. For over a year there have been anti-Japanese riots throughout Manchuria. Last month a Captain Shintaro Nakamura of the Japanese Army left Mukden to make survey maps in the Manchurian interior. He was provided with papers giving him full permission signed by Chinese authorities, but permits mean little to soldiers who cannot read. Captain Nakamura was arrested as a spy and executed...
...Hsueh-Liang, Vice-Commander of the Nanking Government's Army & Navy, sit up and take notice in the Rockefeller Hospital at Peiping last week. Among other things typhoid-convalescent Chang noticed that the first motor truck ever built in China had snorted out of his great arsenal in Mukden...