Word: sino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opportunity for Harvard to make clear its position in the Sino-Japanese War and take a real step in furthering international scholarship was outlined by John K. Fairbank '29, instructor in History, as he discussed the drive for books and funds to support China's fleeing universities starting this week...
...findings of the party in the Far East point to the existence of rich Cenozoic deposits throughout the East Indies, Indian, and China. Scientists are particularly eager to penetrate into southern China, from which the Sino-Japanese War now unfortunately excludes all research parties...
...Japanese who might well have been flushed with double-barrelled victory, War Minister Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki, officially declared last week in Tokyo: "The conflict between Japan and China is little affected. . . . Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started. The unexpectedly early victory at Hankow should be attributed to the august virtues of His Imperial Majesty, and at the same time to the brave efforts of the Japanese forces which participated. After victory, tighten your helmet strap...
...Tumen until she took over Manchukuo six years ago. The boundary of Manchukuo joins the Tumen somewhere near Changkufeng Hill and recently the Japanese decided that the hill would be nice to hold. The Manchukuoan border was easy to argue about, since it was fixed by the Sino-Russian treaty of 1886 of which Russia holds the only known copy (China's copy was unaccountably lost). So fortnight ago the Japanese seized the hill. The Russians fought back and all last week Japanese communiqués were filled with accounts of the repulse of Russian attacks in force...
...Japanese explained: ". . . Cancellation is due to the fact that it is absolutely necessary for Japan to obtain the objective of the Sino-Japanese incident by national mobilization of materials and spirits. . . ." International observers, not at all surprised at this turn of events, hinted at other reasons in addition to the pinched economic situation: 1) Recent restoration to power of aristocratic army leaders who, dreading Japanese adoption of Western ways, have from the start opposed the meet and its concurrent influx of Occidentals; 2) Fear of "losing face" in view of the threatened boycott of the Games by Great Britain, Switzerland...