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Japanese occupation of Manchuria continued unchallenged by any Great Power. In Mukden, Capital of Manchuria, a puppet "Chinese Government" protected by Japan and headed by Chinese General Yuan Chin-kai last week proclaimed "severance of relations" between the three Manchurian provinces and the rest of China. Lest Japan set up the ex-Emperor of China as a puppet ruler of Manchuria, a Chinese patriot sent "Emperor" Henry Pu Yi a basket of fruit containing a bomb. Henry took the basket, thanked his Heavenly Ancestors for their protection when the bomb did not explode...
...Egged by Japanese General Honjo, now seeking to set up a puppet Chinese regime in Manchuria, puppet Chinese General Chang Hai-peng advanced last week upon Tsitsihar, held by loyal Chinese General Ma Chan-shan who offered peacefully to give up the old walled town...
...Mongolia appeared the Dar Khan, barbaric Prince of the Blood, friendly to Chinese. In Peiping he vowed that Japanese agents had offered him bribes to declare the independence of Inner Mongolia and become its puppet ruler, protected by Japan...
...Japanese scout planes for the first time flew south of Manchuria into China proper, soared near Peiping and Tientsin where Japan keeps a puppet "Chinese Emperor...
Inner Mongolia by means of puppet governments of servile Chinese. . . . Mukden was almost a dead city when I left. The Japanese had closed the banks and Northwestern University, and huge numbers of the Chinese population had fled...