Word: shanhaikwan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...