Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In North China last week another of these Japanese Puzzles was in the making. Army chiefs moved Japanese forces in overwhelming numbers down to the Great Wall. The Army's master-spy and agent provocateur, Major General Kenji Doihara, had everything set for five Chinese provinces to secede as...
Japan last week sparred cautiously for a new body-hold on China. The Japanese high command were with their Emperor Hirohito watching autumn maneuvers at Kyushu. The Chinese high command were, with the greatest unanimity ever seen in China, at the Kuomintang Party Conference in Nanking. The Nanking Government plumed...
Reasons for Japan's caution last week were two: 1) it already controls North China in all but externals; 2) it wants an airtight technical case against Nanking, to avoid any chance that the League of Nations will declare against Japan the sanctions tested out on Italy.
Last week Japan and the Nanking Government angled for the war lords of North China with counter bribes, appeals and threats. Japan appeared to land two at once. Sung Cheh-yuan, Chinese commandant of the Peiping and Tientsin garrisons, and Yin Ju-keng, commissioner of the demilitarized zone in North...
Japan's most potent Jingo, Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, onetime War Minister and boss of the Army's "Ginger Group," had glorious news last week from Shanghai where a Japanese squadron is commanded by his brother Rear Admiral Sadasuke Araki. The glorious news: somebody had murdered a Japanese...