Word: shiosawa
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Chinese towel factory single-handed in the middle of the night. He flung blazing newspapers into the weaving room. Other Japanese attacked policemen attempting to summon fire engines. When the towels were finally extinguished 1,000 Japanese held a mass meeting in the Japan Club, and Rear Admiral Koichi Shiosawa, commander of the Japanese fleet anchored off Shanghai, issued an ultimatum: all anti-Japanese organizations in the foreign settlement as well as in the native cities must be suppressed "on pain of drastic naval action...
Tokyo backed him up by sending an aircraft carrier and four destroyers. At Admiral Shiosawa's command were ten Japanese warships and 1,300 troops...
British, French, U. S. officials in Shanghai itself lost no time replying to Admiral Shiosawa. A delegation of them boarded a launch, chugged out to the Japanese flagship and demanded a statement. Hissing politely through his teeth, Admiral Shiosawa replied that he was not a free agent, that he was merely obeying orders from Tokyo. He did agree to consult the Settlement Council before taking any military action...
...stay out of Shanghai. By next nightfall 1,300 Japanese had landed with field pieces and machine guns. The ten warships were spotted at even intervals all up and down the river with their guns trained on the city, decks cleared and men at battle stations. Admiral Shiosawa threatened to occupy all the Chinese forts and barracks in the Shanghai district unless a full apology for the tousling of the monks, one of whom had died, was made, an indemnity paid, and the anti-Japanese boycott called off. The city was on edge. Somebody planted a bomb in the Nanking...