Word: nishihara
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...midnight in Hanoi and Admiral Jean Decoux, Governor General of French Indo-China, was in bed when Major General Issaku Nishihara, head of the Japanese military mission, arrived at his residence last week and demanded an immediate audience. "I am not getting up," shouted the irate Admiral. "If the Japanese want to declare war, they can do it tomorrow morning...
...bases and permission to transport 20,000 troops on the French-owned Indo-China Railway for a backdoor attack on China. It was to demand permission to transport 40,000 more troops and the free use of the great French naval base at Cam-ranh Bay that General Nishihara made his midnight call...
...matter of grave moment to Japan," growled the Tokyo press, describing De Gaulle as "a mere puppet of the British Government." Major General Issaku Nishihara, head of a big Japanese mission now in Indo-China to squeeze concessions out of the new Vichy-appointed Governor General, Admiral Jean Decoux, whipped out an ultimatum. He demanded on threat of immediate invasion the use of French IndoChina's chief port, Haiphong, as a naval and air base, and permission to transport Japanese equipment and troops over the French-owned Indo-Chinese Railway for an attack on South China...
Having thus violated the letter and massacred the spirit of the transportation agreement, the Japanese began last week to cry that Indo-China was not doing its part, that military goods were still trickling into China. Japan's chief penetrator, Major General Issaku Nishihara, flew home to Tokyo to report to his superiors, and his impetuous second-in-command, an angry colonel named Kenryo Sato, was reported to have made new demands: 1 ) Japan should be allowed to move troops into China by the Indo-Chinese railway; 2) Japanese naval planes and vessels should get port facilities at Haiphong...
President Chiang was rumored in Shanghai banking circles last week to have signed a secret treaty promising repayment to Japan of the $50,000,000 Nishihara loans which his Government previously declared illegal. Thus quiet Mr. Soong, the Shanghai banker who will have to find the $50,000,000, may yet draw the strongest weapon which can be drawn in China? Japan...