Word: tangku
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North. With Peiping and Tientsin already fallen to the Japanese since the outbreak of war, July 7, some 5,000 more square miles of Chinese territory were under "Japanese protection" last week. Along a wavering line of 150 miles from Nankow to Tangku on the coast (see map) a Japanese army of 120,000 battled with a Chinese force that outnumbered them...
...wholesale attention of Chinese Government Forces." At this time 30,000 Japanese soldiers in North China had thoroughly beaten 300,000 Chinese soldiers, had approached within five miles of Peiping, and had, by a ruthless stratagem, made Chinese pride grovel in the thick dust of the little town of Tangku...
Chinese plenipotentiaries sent by Generalissimo Chiang to make peace or at least a truce with Japan arrived by special train at Tangku to find neither motor cars nor any other conveyance at the station...
...necessary for these high ranking Chinese to go on foot through the dusty streets of Tangku, and stand humbly in the broiling sun before the heavy gates of the Japanese barracks in this Chinese town, until Japanese soldiers deigned to open. Inside, the Japanese plenipotentiaries were of insultingly lower rank than the Chinese they forced to sign on the dotted line...
...slant eyes of the Far East, China appallingly "lost face" by this Tangku Truce, which has been stretched by Japan in the ensuing months to legalize any outrage Japanese or Koreans chose to commit in North China. In the spring of 1936, not only were Japanese-smuggled sugar, artificial-silk and cigaret paper selling openly in Peiping for less than the Chinese duty which should have been collected on them, but the Chinese state railways were each day running a "smugglers" freight car" coupled to the morning passenger train which entered North China from the Japanese puppet Empire of Manchukuo...