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Looping the Loop in Manchuria

September 2, 1904

Japanese troops encourage Aleksey Kuropatkin as his little rail car starts up a railway that ends in a loop. Signs point forwards to Mukden, and back to Liao Yang.

Kuropatkin was the Russian Minister of War, and commander of the Russian Army in Manchuria. Kuropatkin had just retreated from Liao Yang, where the Russians had been defeated, and was being inconvenienced by rail sabotage in the retreat to Mukden.

See Also: Russo-Japanese War

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Bart/id/4658

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Chinese photographer with camera, Mukden

c. 1900s

[omniatlas]

Asia Pacific 90 years ago today: Northeast Flag Replacement (29 Dec 1928) https://buff.ly/2ETkwiF Japanese attempts to halt the Nationalist advance in China were thwarted when the warlord Yan Xishan unexpectedly seized Beijing on behalf of Chiang Kaishek’s Nationalist government. The other warlords soon followed suit in recognizing the Nationalist regime in Nanjing, culminating in December with the Fengtian clique raising the Nationalist flag in the cities of the northeast. Once again China was united, albeit more as a coalition of warlords than a centralized state. #asiapacific #history #welovemaps #map #1920s #1928 #china #chinesecivilwar #chinesehistory #december #december29 #fengtian #japan #japanesehistory #kuomintang #manchuria #mukden #warlordchina #chiangkaishek #jiangjieshi #maps #chineseunification #todayinhistory #historytoday #historyteacher #historybuff #historygeek #historynerd #asianhistory #worldhistory (at Shenyang, Liaoning) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br9dkWhAU8n/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lgt1rj54n3rj

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East Red Gate of the Zhaoling Mausoleum in Mukden, modern-day Shenyang, China

Japanese vintage postcard

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Town scene in Mukden, modern-day Shenyang, Manchuria, China

Japanese vintage postcard

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“60 INSURGENTS ELECTROCUTED,” Owen Sound Sun Times. November 3, 1932. Page 7. ---- Electrically Charged Wire Strung for Defense Purposes Effective --- (Associated Press Despatch) MUKDEN, Manchuria - Nov. 3 - Sixty insurgent soldiers were killed today by electrically charged wire used as part of the defence of the Penghuangcheng station on the Mukden-Antung railway, the Rengo (Japanese) News agency reported from Antung. 

The mass electrocution occurred during an insurgent attack on the garrison maintained by the Japanese and Manchukuo troops.

After a three-hour fight Japanese reinforcements routed the attackers, of whom  30 more were killed in action.

[AL: Any barbarity in the name of so-called civilization.]

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“GOBI DESERT ROAMER TIRED OF CHINESE,” Kingston Whig-Standard. October 24, 1932. Page 12.  ---- They Know Nothing of Co-Operation Says Discoverer of Eggs ---- VANCOUVER— Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, explorer and anthropologist, famous for his discovery of dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert, is through with China for good, he announced on his return to this continent a few days ago from the far East. 

“I am tired of Chinese promises of co-operation in my scientific work,” said Dr. Andrews. “Why, they don't even know the meaning of co-operation. They are glad enough to have me spend a lot of money on scientific equipment and they encouraged me to go out into the desert in search of scientific specimens but as soon as found anything worth while, they stepped in and took them away.

“Everything I had, except scientific instruments, I auctioned off before I left China," said Dr. Andrews. “I even had to part with my Alsatian dog Wolf to whom I had become very much attached. However he has a good home with an American newspaper correspondent.” 

While Dr. Andrews is through with China he does not intend to abandon his scientific work in the Gobi Desert. He will merely cease operating out of Peiping and make his base at Mukden instead, he said.

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“Torontians Beaten By Jap Soldiers,” Toronto Star. May 19, 1932. Page 2. ---- Rev. Joseph Koffend (1) and Dr. Jonathan Goforth (3) are two of three Toronto missionaries who protested to the British consul-general that they had been beaten by Japanese soldiers at Mukden. Mrs. Koffend, who is assisting with her husband’s work, is shown in (2).