Word: tientsin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article Baron Shidehara's successor, Foreign Minister Yoshizawa, seemed in agreement last week: China was not a power to be considered in any way. After a long week- end conference the Foreign Office announced to the Western Powers its new plan for China: The five most important Chinese cities, Tientsin, Tsingtao. Shanghai, Canton, Hankow, were to be taken over by the Powers, who would establish around them neutral zones 15 to 20 miles wide from which all Chinese soldiers and police were to be barred. The Western Powers promptly rejected the plan as a gross violation of Chinese sovereignty...
...Tientsin, second largest Chinese port, a Chinese mob of 2,000 clashed with Chinese police near the borderline between the Chinese City and the Japanese Concession. Arrested mobsmen swore later that they had been paid $40 Mex. ($10) each by Japanese agents provocateurs. However this might be the Japanese garrison commander repulsed rioters from the vicinity of the Japanese concession with a warning burst of machine gun fire, then unlimbered his field pieces and dropped 40 small explosive shells in the Chinese quarter of Tientsin...
...Occidental quarter of Tientsin the U. S. business community was well guarded last week by 500 U. S. soldiers of the 15th Infantry. Their commander, Col. James D. Taylor, declared a War Department spokesman, "is a man of enough experience not to be upset by minor dis- orders...
...Japanese succeed in inducing Manchuria to secede from China. But the Japanese Government will have no official part in doings so highhanded. In Tokyo last week a Government spokesman told Japanese reporters that Imperial Henry is "in danger of being kidnapped [from his home in the Japanese concession at Tientsin] by Chinese who are resolved to make him Emperor of Manchuria...
Married. Nelson Trusler Johnson, U. S. Minister to China; and Jane Beck of Cody, Wyo., his lifelong friend, daughter of George T. Beck, onetime Wyoming State Senator and Democratic candidate for Governor; at the U.S. Consulate in Tientsin...