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...them to go home and not risk their lives for such stuff. But I salved myself with the hope that by leading these Arabs madly in a final victory I would establish them with arms in a position so assured (if not dominant) that expediency would counsel a fair settlement of their claims...
...notes are not the only weapon the Japanese have been using. Japanese military and naval spokesmen have "predicted" that Japan would soon find it "necessary" to send her marines into the Shanghai International Settlement to stamp out anti-Japanese "terrorism."* Flushed by their small but solid victory at Amoy, the three Western countries put on at Shanghai a joint demonstration of just what resistance Japan would meet in the Settlement should her armed forces try to move...
...French Concession special Chinese police, French Ahnamese soldiers even French sailors from warships in the Whangpoo River were mustered out. In the International Settlement the 4th U. S. Marines and bluejackets from the U. S. cruiser Augusta were under stand-by orders. The British ordered out their entire defense forces, landing both soldiers and sailors from warships. The Shanghai Volunteer Corps and the International Settlement Police were called out to the last man. To give the Japanese no excuse for penetrating the area, Settlement patrols also began a systematic search for terrorists arrested 150 Chinese, found no ammunition. Two Chinese...
...Japanese civilians and thousands of Army men who have thrown money about in the cafes geisha houses, bars and dance halls of Shanghai, the yen's fall meant that gaiety would become more expensive. Japanese officials began asking their nationals not to spend their yen in the International Settlement and the Japanese-sponsored Asia Development Board began a "thrift" campaign to cut down on "entertainment...
...recent months there has been less anti-Japanese terrorism in the Shanghai International Settlement than in Shanghai territory ruled exclusively by Japan. But Japanese suspect, with reason, that many of Japan's murdered Chinese puppets have been killed by assassins lying low in the Settlement...