Word: sino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been asking what General Doihara is doing in China. In effect Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, author of Japan's notorious Twenty-One Demands on China a generation ago, has been obliged to admit that the Japanese Army has sent General Doihara as its own independent negotiator in the Sino-Japanese diplomatic haggle now being conducted as a repetition of the "demands" maneuver (TIME, Feb. 11). The Japanese Army apparently does not trust the Japanese Foreign Office or Japanese diplomats. With something as big as the Empire's future in China at stake, the Army has sent...
Hongkong, Monday, March 4--Japan must treat China as an equal if any Sino-Japanese accord is to be ratified, HuHan-Min, powerful Cantonese leader, today informed Lientenant-General Kenji...
...major catastrophe always seems to follow Japan's acquisition of new land. After the Sino-Japanese War, which added Formosa, the Pescadores Islands, and the puppet Kingdom of Korea to the Empire of the Rising Sun, the earthquake of 1896 killed 27,102. After the Russo-Japanese War and the acquisition of Port Arthur, the Kwantung Peninsula and the southern half of Sakhalin, the Formosa earthquake of 1906 killed 1,228. After the Treaty of Versailles gave Japan a precious bagful of Pacific Island mandates, came the terrible earthquake of 1923 which killed 91,344. And three years...
From China last week came the photographic story of another war, †the Sino-Japanese quarrel over what is now Manchukuo. Compiled by Dr. Joseph Yu. head of Shanghai's Nantao Clinic, it presents 87 pages of war pictures which Dr. Yu took with a Brownie, seven pages of advertisements (venereal cures, toothpastes, virility drugs, sun lamps). Because doctors work behind the lines, there are no pictures of actual combat, many of the wounded. Sample caption, in English & Chinese: "The Wounded Receiving Eatables...
Later that day President Roosevelt formally authorized the maneuver. Beginning early next spring the Battle Force, which has been in the Pacific, its normal base, since 1930, and the Scouting Force which went there during the Sino-Japanese crisis, will return to eastern ports until autumn, then go back to the Pacific. Meanwhile only a skeleton fleet of 15 destroyers, four battleships, half a dozen cruisers and submarines will guard the Pacific. The cruise will bring many of the 50,000 enlisted men and 4,500 officers home for the first time in three years, will cost the Navy Department...