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Baron Kijuro Shidehara sat in his sumptuous, high ceilinged office at the Japanese Foreign Ministry last week, seeking by every means to prevent a clash between Chinese and Japanese in China, and to persuade Great Britain and the U. S. not to follow up their shelling of Nanking (TIME, April...
"China, Internal Development and Relations with Occidental Powers, 1860, 1894." Dr. Hornbeck, Harvard 5.
"Japan: Internal Development and Relations with Occidental Powers, 1858-1894. Dr. Hornbeck, Harvard 3, History 18.
1) The white men and women in the Occidental Quarter of Shanghai were protected by 20,000 troops, mostly British. They scarcely knew or cared who captured the Chinese Quarter. On the very eve of this "great victory" a correspondent cabled from Shanghai:
3) The Cantonese had so often been announced to be at the gates, on a false alarm, that when they arrived, last week, their coming was almost an anticlimax. There was no fighting. The defenders, a miserable rabble of mercenaries, had simply fled back from the previous scene of battle...