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Aggrieved must have been U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson, whose whole career has been spent in China, save when he served in the Far Eastern section of the State Department, who knows China from Szechwan to Kirin (California to Maine) and speaks Chinese as fluently as he speaks English. For he had long advocated giving China an embassy. Only consolation he had last week was that he would probably be upped from a $12,000 ministership to a $17,500 ambassadorship...
Elderly Japanese read the papers through their spectacles last week and realized that there are more ways of fighting a war than the winning of battles. Manchuria troops moved out of Mukden almost without opposition and occupied the village of Lanchihpu. Military conquest of the three Manchurian provinces? Heilungkiang, Kirin, Fengtien?was almost complete. Behind a shield of Chinese puppet officials, Japanese authorities were rapidly turning the entire district into a Japanese colony...
General Honjo Digs In. With the capture of Tsitsihar (which Japanese estimated cost 300 Japanese lives, 3,000 Chinese) the Japanese forces in Manchuria under General Shigeru Honjo controlled all three Manchurian provincial capitals, Mukden (General Honjo's base) Kirin and nese had already dug in by establishing puppet Chinese governments at Mukden and Kirin. Last week they established Chinese Puppet Chang Chin-hui at Tsitsihar. To demonstrate the independence of these Chinese regimes General Honjo called attention to the fact that the Chinese Government of Southern Manchuria at Mukden had just adopted a budget of their own diligent...
...They were replaced by an un savory group of Chinese calling themselves the Peoples Preservation Committee who seemed disposed to declare the secession of Manchuria from the rest of China. Other secessionist movements were reported (by the Japanese press) in such leading Manchurian cities as Harbin and Kirin. Finally in Tokyo suave General Jiro Minami, Japanese War Minister credited with secretly ordering the whirl wind Japanese occupation of Manchuria (TIME, Sept. 28), appeared before the Japanese Cabinet last week with a sheaf of telegrams in his small, hard fist. According to General Minami, the Chinese citizens of Harbin had just...
Chang. Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, "War Lord of Manchuria," summoned his chief henchmen to Mukden early in the week, and caused them to adopt a resolution declaring that the three Manchurian provinces (Shenpking, Holung-kiang and Kirin) no longer recognize the authority of the so-called "Government of China" at Peking...