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...Japanese planes bombed three trainloads of Chinese soldiers at Tahusan on the Peiping-Mukden Railway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Boycott, Bloodshed & Puppetry | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Nanking is Incapable." Count Yasuya Uchida, president of the Japanese-owned & policed South Manchuria Railway which is the steel core of all the trouble, told correspondents last week with brutal candor exactly what Japan's military leaders in Manchuria have done and propose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: War! | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...Japanese armored trains ripped up in 26 places railway lines connecting Peiping with Manchuria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: War! | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

Reaching Moscow from Peiping and Mukden over the Trans-Siberian Railway last week, Upton Close, modern Oriental historian, told the New York Times correspondent : "Foreigners in Mukden agree that the Japanese attack [TIME, Sept. 28 ct seq.] was premeditated, unprovoked and carried out with extreme ruthlessness for the purpose of striking terror among Chinese forces everywhere. . . . The Japanese intend to colonize Manchuria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: War! | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...every big airmail operator in the U. S. met in an Atlantic City hotel room one day last fortnight. When they emerged, the Pioneer Transport Operators' Association had been formed, with membership limited to present holders of mail contracts. As in the case of the Association of Railway Executives, which is supposed to mould the policies of the rail industry, only the No. 1 man of each member company may represent it in the association.* Purpose of the organization was vaguely stated; something about "cooperation ... on matters pertaining to more efficient operation and service." But two obvious reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Big v. Little | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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