Word: shanhaikwan
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Italian Legation guard in Peiping and small Italian garrisons in Tientsin and Shanhaikwan were disarmed. The Italian diplomatic mission in Tokyo was confined to its quarters and held incommunicado. The bulk of the 1,100 Italian nationals in the Far East, of whom almost 900 are in Shanghai, were interned or placed under guard, and must register their assets and list their properties with Japanese military authorities...