Word: tsinan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Take the recent Tsinan incident.* How many innocent country men of ours were killed there? The bones of many still lie unburied, yet Japan still occupies Shantung...
...During the Chinese Revolutionary War, recently won by the Chinese Nationalists, a Japanese interventionary force occupied Shantung ''to protect the lives and property of Japanese colonists" and has remained in occupation ever since. With scant or manufactured provocation, this Japanese force attacked a Nationalist Army at Tsinan, the Capital of Shantung (TIME, May 14), thus seriously embarrassing for a time the eventually victorious. Nationalist offensive...
...Japanese artillery and the merciless rattle of Japanese machine guns taught Chinese a bitter lesson last week. They learned once and for all that Imperial Japan will not permit Chinamen to carry on their incessant civil wars in Shantung, a Chinese province, but the home of numerous Japanese colonists. Tsinan is the capital of Shantung. From Tsinan efficient professional Japanese troops drove, last week, ten times their number of ragged, nondescript Chinese soldiery. Right or wrong, the Japanese Commander, General Fukuda, struck blow after crushing blow with a mailed fist constituted by 5,000 Japanese troops which he recently brought...
...styled "guilty" by General Fukuda were troops of the South China Nationalist Government established at Nanking (TIME, April 25, 1927). They recently advanced northward into Shantung in the course of their civil war with the North China Government of Peking Dictator Chang Tso-lin. When the Southern Nationalists captured Tsinan, last fortnight, they became "guilty" in Japanese eyes, because they allegedly committed certain atrocities in Shantung. So omniscient is Japanese efficiency that last week the Government at Tokyo placed on display photographs alleged to have been taken (by General Fukuda's order) of Japanese victims tortured to death...
...Taian, near Tsinan (see p. 18) an unidentified Chinese war bullet entered the bedroom window of Mrs. William T. Hobart, a U. S. Methodist Mission worker and resulted in her death...