Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hullabaloo caused in China by Japan's refusal to abrogate the 1915 treaty-extension of leases on Liao-Tung peninsula-is not without its resultant action in Japan. A public movement has been started by the National League of Japan designed to oppose any action toward cancellation of the treaty...
...refusal by Japan to abrogate the 1915 treaty-extending the leases of Port Arthur and Dalny on the Liao-Tung peninsula - is creating a furore in China. University students are clamoring for a boycott of all Japanese goods, advising the Government to send a second note to Tokyo and to prepare for war in the meantime. Public opinion is, however, indifferent to their demands, and, from recent reports, the agitation is dying a natural death...
This means, among other things, that Japan will occupy the Liaotung peninsula for another 50 years, whereas China maintains that the leases on this strip of land terminate next Tuesday. No power on earth can put Japan out except a gigantic, solid Chinese army. An army China will have if it takes 50 years to get. So runs public opinion on the Oriental mainland...
...conclusion of the Russo-Japanese war, China agreed to transfer the lease of the Liaotung Peninsula from Russia to Japan. The lease expires March 27,1923. Japan in 1915 insisted on a 50-year renewal...
Swords and daggers from Spain and Italy, Indian and Indo-Persian weapons and armor; primitive arms from Africa, Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; powder horns, helmets and halberds; wheelock guns and Near Eastern swords; daggers and sabers; Venetian rapiers, make up a collection of arms and armor formed in Austria and now in the Anderson galleries. Some of it belonged to the Archduke Charles...