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Many times in the past the Japanese Government at Tokyo has been embarrassed by the situations created in China by Japanese military men, who are responsible to the sacred Emperor alone. This time there was every indication that the Tientsin military, although not acting with the foreknowledge of the Government, had its backing. The Domei News Agency said the Cabinet fully approved the action at Tientsin. The Foreign Office at Tokyo considered the incident a local one-i.e., one to be handled by the military...
...Toes. In choosing Tientsin for a trial of strength with the West the Japanese cleverly picked one of the foreign zones in China where the U. S. has least interests. In Tientsin there are two U. S. banks, 20 fur exporters, two real estate firms, two woolen mills and some U. S.-owned buildings, but the aggregate investment is computed at only about...
...with the Soviet Union, leaving their huge investments in China (said to be worth $1,410,000,000) alone. Instead the Japanese marched southward, and last week Britain's diplomatic chickens of 1932 had come home to roost. Small comfort it was to the British that outside their Tientsin Concession the Japanese military set up a loudspeaker system to "explain" their action to English-speaking passersby. Said the plaintive voice through the loudspeaker: "We are so sorry to be giving you lots of trouble...
...Hong Kong and Shanghai. The Japanese are bitterly aware of this. They have not yet dared seize the international settlement of Shang hai and other foreign areas of cities but they have tried gradual encroachment, and last week they tried something stronger, blockading the French and British concessions in Tientsin, thereby striking a blow where the U. S. has no direct territorial rights...
...they can permanently cut off Tientsin, the Japanese may be able to suppress one of the most troublesome of the black bourses where Japanese currency is bought and sold at a discount. This is not only an economic disadvantage but a loss of face. But even if the Japanese are able to clear the money-changers out of Tientsin, there remain Shanghai and the illegal black bourses in Tsingtao and other Chinese cities in which there are no foreign concessions or settlements. And if Shanghai were seized the legal black bourse could move to British-owned Hong Kong...