Word: changchun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dollars cabled to him by patriotic Chinese from all over the world. Then he fled before the Japanese advance and turned up as War Minister of "Independent Manchuria," the puppet state set up by Japan (TIME, March 21). Last week War Minister Ma did not send his telegram from Changchun, the puppet capital of Independent Manchuria. Instead he traveled to the remote Manchurian frontier city of Taheiho, just across the Amur River from Soviet Russia. There, with a fine disregard of telegraph costs, he wired over 1,000 words to President Chiang and to Marshal Wu?words which amounted...
...Purely a Japanese setup, this new state with its "government" of heavily bribed Chinese Generals still proposed last week to set up its capital at Changchun; and weak-eyed Mr. Henry Pu Yi (ex-Emperor of China) was still to be "Head of the Great Union." But nobody knew (after three weeks of Japanese indecision) whether it would be a Republic or a Monarchy...