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Taking along a load of opium, a load of Japanese yen and a load of warm winter clothing, Captain Kawahito set off in command of a platoon, floundered through awful mud to the bandits' lair-all because His Britannic Majesty's Government refuses to be trifled with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Opium to the Rescue | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...that Mrs. Pawley's kidnappers considered themselves unemployed and wanted steady jobs. As the first condition of ransom they demanded permission to enlist in the new Manchukuo Gendarmery. Second they demanded that the cash part of the ransom be paid in Chinese silver dollars, not in Japanese paper yen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Opium to the Rescue | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...storms at sea" have so delayed transmission of the Lytton Report on Japan's occupation of Manchuria that release and discussion of the Report by the Council must be long delayed. League presses were at that very moment printing the report for, as China's Dr. W. W. Yen scathingly observed, there happen to be such things as telegraphs, cables and radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ye-ah? | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

Feng has been spending the summer in poor health near the "Sacred Mountain," meditating an alliance with model Governor Han of Shantung and model Governor Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi Province. Should those three able heads really get together, Generalissimo Chiang, Marshal Chang Jr. and the so-called Chinese Government at Nanking may expect to be wiped from the map while ancient glory is restored to PEKING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Shantung's War | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...French Munitions Trust, headed by enigmatic Eugene Schneider of Schneider-Creusot, bought Le Temps of Paris about the time Japan began to shoot. Last week Le Temps heard that the Munitions Trust may loan 100,000,000 yen ($25,000,000 current exchange) to Manchukuo. the Japanese Government guaranteeing this loan (much of which would inevitably be spent upon munitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Centre of the World! | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

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