Word: telfer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene in Shanghai's International Settlement, every effort to dissuade the Japanese from celebrating their victory with a boastful parade was made, meanwhile, by British Brigadier Alexander Telfer-Smollett and the U. S. Marines' Brigadier General John C. Beaumont. After they had twice protested in vain to the Japanese, a high U. S. official, lacking in Shanghai the detached perspective of London, cried: "If the Chinese fire a single shot, God knows what will happen! To hold such a procession at such a time is to invite disaster...
Significance. Japan's "big push" was accompanied by the bursting for the first time of stray Japanese shells in such fashion as to kill four British Tommies and wound six more by this week. Tommies had held their fire while General Telfer-Smollet flung himself flat and escaped a round of Japanese machine gun bullets fired at fleeting Chinese, but foreign tempers in Shanghai were so short that even U. S. Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell gave orders that U. S. forces in Shanghai, if attacked, were to fight back...
...British flagship in Shanghai waters should be sunk, or if General Telfer-Smollett or Admiral Yarnell should be killed, it might mean more to staggering China than the Nine-Power Conference which meets at Brussels next week. Japan last week refused to attend, and so did Germany. Japanese took the conduct of General Telfer-Smollett as proving this up to the hilt, claimed to have found in the captured Alamo quantities of "fresh food which could only have been smuggled in from the British." Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa this week was so boiling mad on his flagship at Shanghai that...