Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the snowy wastes of Northern China came missionary reports last week that Mongol hordes have now established a. new Japan-controlled autonomous nation in Chahar Province "similar to Japan's puppet-state of Manchukuo," are calling it "Mongokuo." This territory, wedged between Manchukuo and Suiyan Province, is roughly the size of Ohio, has its capital at Chap Ser. Another slice of China has thus nearly if not quite been added to the Japanese Empire...
...heard of this new state!" For months Mongokuo has had a de facto government, headed by Prince Teh, together with an army of some 10,000 Mongolians and Manchukuoans officered and commanded by Japanese. Governmental departments are headed by Mongols, but are run by Japanese "advisers" as in Manchukuo...
Engaged. Lieut. Pu Chieh, 31, younger brother of Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo; and Hiroko Saga, 23, daughter of a Japanese noble; in Tokyo. Since the Emperor has no son, on Manchukuo's fifth birthday last week Pu Chieh was proclaimed heir presumptive to "The Orchid Throne...
...jail at Harbin recently contained six White Guards, convicted of having murdered a pro-Soviet Jewish orchestra conductor named Simon Kaspe. The Manchukuo Supreme Court presently reviewed their case and, according to the Moscow Pravda's passionate account last week, had before it the evidence of Harbin Police Chief Yeguchi who testified: "These men are Russian patriots preparing a revolt on Soviet territory." Even the prosecutor, according to Pravda, tacitly admitted that "the crime had a political background...
Verdict: the Manchukuo Supreme Court ordered "the release of the accused from the accusation on the grounds of an amnesty." Winding up the story with a gruesome punch, Pravda said that the White Guards who thus go scot free murdered the Jewish orchestra leader after kidnapping him, sending his father "your son's ears to show we mean business," and attempting vainly to get by these means 300,000 yen for their revolution...