Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...increase in population, the task was simple. The type of immigrant has changed, however, and the cities are becoming filled with a dangerous class of foreigner, the producer of crime waves and bomb plots. With these things in view, the sieve-like quality shown by our border and port officials is at least deplorable. The brew in the melting pot, once looked upon with such pride and called democracy, needs little more seasoning to change its nature entirely...
...Council of Ambassadors insisted upon Lithuania making an agreement with Poland granting her transit facilities in the port. Lithuania, agreeing to the proviso, has sent delegates to Paris to confer with the Poles, under the auspices of the Council...
Liaotung is the promontory immediately north of Peking and south of Korea. Its harbors include Port Arthur, of war fame, and Dalny, "model city...
...March 27 the lease of Port Arthur and Talienwan (Dalny) comes to an end. Japan obtained rights over these two ports at the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War. The Chinese Government points out that the time is appropriate for the return of the ports and the cancellation of the 1915 treaty...