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...Tientsin, the third largest Chinese port, was suddenly occupied last week (to Tokyo's great satisfaction) by a Japanese force which took away all the local Chinese soldiers' and policemen's arms and forced the Mayor of Tientsin at bayonet's point to sign a paper...
...Japanese then returned to the Chinese their arms, marched off with the paper. The paper pledged Tientsin Chinese to attempt no armed aggression against Tientsin Japanese...
Tokyo got the point. The point was to terrify Tientsin. Last week Tientsin was the only large Chinese city so completely terrorized that its Chinese merchants bought Japanese goods in large quantities...
Shanghai was to Tokyo last week only another Tientsin, on a much grander and more glorious scale (see p. 21). Japan has many objectives, but a very big one is to scare the biggest Chinese city, Shanghai, into dropping the boycott of Japanese goods now general throughout China, and into buying Japanese goods. The big businessmen of Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe were under the strange but powerful impression last week that by employing Might in its crudest form the Japanese Empire can sell to China. After all, what was "The Opium War?" Chinese say it was a successful exhibition...
...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...