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Meanwhile, besides raiding Tsingtao (see below) Japan continued to fight in Manchuria. For once Chinese made serious resistance. A ragged volunteer force of about 5,000 men rose out of the frozen plains, captured the Japan-held railway junction of Tahushan. killed 200 men, then rubbed out a little Japanese detachment at Chinsi. It was a short triumph. Japanese reinforcements rolled up from Mukden, wreaked swift, bloody vengeance...
...roofed Tsingtao, chief port of famed Shantung Province, China, the biggest newspaper came out one day last week describing the attempt to assassinate Emperor Hirohito of Japan as "an unfortunate failure." A mob swept out of the Japanese quarter of the city and methodically kicked the offices of the Min Kuo Daily News apart. Then they burned the local headquarters of the Kuomintang (Nationalist) Party. Thousands of Chinese gathered up their belongings and fled to the back country...
...rest of the world seemed too busy to pay much attention, but to thoughtful observers of Far Eastern affairs the seizure of Tsingtao was a hair-raiser. Tsingtao is not in Manchuria, has nothing to do with Manchuria. It is in China proper, a magnificent harbor, terminus of an important railroad...
...disarm the Chinese garrisons in South Manchuria. The railway zone being soon outrun, the Japanese soldiers speedily occupied Mukden, the capital, and practically all other strategic points. Hundreds of Chinese were killed. Altogether there are now more than 14,000 Japanese troops in Manchuria. Additional forces had landed in Tsingtao, farther south in the province of Shantung, and gunboats appeared in the Liaotung Gulf. Since the news agency in Manchuria is under Japanese censorship, no adequate reports are available. But even from the information which has thus far reached us, it is obvious that the Japanese out-rages have wrought...
...seized the city proper. Under orders from General Jiro Tamon, troops moved up the line and took virtually every city on the South Manchuria Railway along its 693 miles. In 24 hours Japan had virtual control of all South Manchuria and warships had landed troops in China Proper, in Tsingtao on the Shantung Peninsula, the old German treaty port that was captured by Japan in 1914 and held until 1922 when, as a result of the Washington Conference, she returned it to China...