Word: shanhaikwan
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Last week, from U.S.-occupied Chin-wangtao, Central Government troops broke through Communist lines at Shanhaikwan, coastal anchor of the Great Wall. For the first time since 1931, Central Government forces were on Manchurian soil...
...Italian Legation guard in Peiping and small Italian garrisons in Tientsin and Shanhaikwan were disarmed. The Italian diplomatic mission in Tokyo was confined to its quarters and held incommunicado. The bulk of the 1,100 Italian nationals in the Far East, of whom almost 900 are in Shanghai, were interned or placed under guard, and must register their assets and list their properties with Japanese military authorities...
...Chinese duty which should have been collected on them. The smugglers swagger about with pistols in their belts, and the Imperial Japanese Government has demanded with success that these "dangerous weapons" be not carried by Chinese customs guards at the frontier posts most convenient for smuggling, such as Shanhaikwan on the Great Wall...
Japan last week moved 5,000 troops to Shanhaikwan on the Manchukuoan North China border, 10,000 to Chinchow, rolled up trains loaded with tanks, planes, horses. In retort, Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek advanced "toward" North China 300,000 Chinese troops, hoping to overawe the North China war lords...
...Nakayama announced last week Japan's willingness to make reparations. It had already made a cash settlement for the bombing of a French Catholic Mission south of the Wall ($600, silver) and had paid rental for the occupation by Japanese troops of the U. S. Methodist Mission at Shanhaikwan ($22, gold...