Word: shantung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese styled "guilty" by General Fukuda were troops of the South China Nationalist Government established at Nanking (TIME, April 25, 1927). They recently advanced northward into Shantung in the course of their civil war with the North China Government of Peking Dictator Chang Tso-lin. When the Southern Nationalists captured Tsinan, last fortnight, they became "guilty" in Japanese eyes, because they allegedly committed certain atrocities in Shantung. So omniscient is Japanese efficiency that last week the Government at Tokyo placed on display photographs alleged to have been taken (by General Fukuda's order) of Japanese victims tortured to death...
During the week General Baron Giichi Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan, called General Viscount Shirakawa into his Cabinet as War Minister, whereupon the pugnacious Viscount, a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, immediately despatched 15,000 additional troops to Shantung. Thus it appeared certain that the present Japanese occupation and intervention will continue for some time...
Observers recalled that part of Shantung was held by Germany prior to the World War, and thereafter seized by the Japanese who were eventually compelled by the Powers to relinquish Shantung and sign the Washington Treaties setting forth the sacredness of China's territorial integrity...
...South China Nationalist Government at Nanking has recently suffered the loss of 3,000 troops killed or wounded in the course of Japanese intervention in Shantung (seep...
Therefore the Nationalists despatched an appeal to the League of Nations, last week, which began by declaring that the Japanese have "committed what amounts to acts of war ... in Shantung . . . [and] fired on Chinese soldiers and civilians without provocation...