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  Shenyang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, it retained considerable prestige as the older capital, treasures of the royal house were kept at its palaces, and the tombs of the early Qing rulers were once among the most famous monuments in China.
The Mukden Incident (September 18, 1931), which gave the Japanese an impetus to create the Manchukuo state in Manchuria, took place near Shenyang.
Mukden Palace, a former imperial palace of the Qing emperors, now a museum and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mukden   (984 words)

  
 SHENG-KING - LoveToKnow Article on SHENG-KING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Its capital is Mukden, or, as it is otherwise known, Shng-king, the Flourishing Capital.
Niu-chwang is the chief port of the province.
Shng-king is well supplied with railways, Mukden being in direct railway connection with Peking, Niu-chwang, Port Arthur and Tairen as well as with the Korean railways, and with Europe and Vladivostock by the trans-Siberian line.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SH/SHENG_KING.htm   (455 words)

  
 MU~CADDASI - LoveToKnow Article on MU~CADDASI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
MUKDEN (Chinese Shngking), the capital of Manchuria, on the Hun-ho, iio m.
The Emperor Kien lung (1726-1796) wrote a poem on Mukden, which was translated into French by Phre Amiot and attracted the attention of Voltaire.
During theRusso-Japanese War in 1905 some of the heaviest fighting took place before Mukden, what is known as the battle of Mukdencovering operations from the i9th of February till the Japaneseoccupied Mukden on the ioth of March and the Russiansretreated northward on the 12th.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MU/MU_CADDASI.htm   (1288 words)

  
 Mukden, Battle of
The Japanese and Russian armies faced each other for some months along this line while the siege of Port Arthur was brought to an end, after which the Japanese began reinforcing their line preparatory to an attack.
The main attack against the centre of the Russian line began on 27 February, while the Japanese 4th Army appeared on the Russian right flank, forcing the two ends of the Russian defensive line to curve backwards.
The Russians began a general retreat in a series of hard-fought rearguard actions which soon deteriorated into a total collapse; Mukden was evacuated by 10 March and the Russians fell back to the north.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0009814.html   (345 words)

  
 Mukden Incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mukden Incident (September 18, 1931), also called Manchurian Incident, occurred in southern Manchuria when a section of railroad, owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway, near Mukden (奉天) (today's Shenyang) was blown up.
The Government of the People's Republic of China opened the 9.18 Incident Exhibition Museum at Shenyang (present-day name of Mukden) on September 18, 1991.
One view is that it was Chinese dissidents, another that it was the Japanese military and there is also the view that this cannot be known due to a lack of historical evidence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mukden_Incident   (460 words)

  
 MANCHURIA - LoveToKnow Article on MANCHURIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Physically the country is divided into two regions, the one a series of mountain ranges occupying the northern and eastern portions of the kingdom, and the other a plain which stretches southwards from Mukden, the capital, to the Gulf of Liao-tung.
The indigo plant is grown in large quantities in the plain country to the north of Mukden, and is transported thence to the coast in carts, each of which carries rather more than a ton weight of the dye.
Branches were promoted (a) from Mukden to Antung on the Yalu, to connect with the Korean system, and (b) from Kwang-cheng-tsze to Kirin.
91.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MANCHURIA.htm   (3715 words)

  
 Web-Grognards: Cobra
Mukden is a simulation of hypotherical actions that could take place between the armed forces of the Soviet Union and of the People's Republic of China, in the area of the vital city of Shenyang (Mukden).
Mukden is liekly to become an importent objective in any such conflict, due to its concentration of industry and its importance as a transportation center.
The city of Mukden (Shenyang) is a large terrain piece in the middle of the map with some rough terrain in two corners.
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 China and the Manchus - Chapter II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
For a time, Nurhachu had been held in check by his skilful dispositions of troops, Mukden was strongly fortified, and confidence generally was restored; but the fatal policy of the new general rapidly alienated the Chinese inhabitants, and caused them to enter secretly into communication with the Manchus.
The former fled, and the latter pursued, only to fall into the inevitable ambush; and the Chinese troops, on retiring in their turn, found that the bridge across the moat had been destroyed by traitors in their own camp, so that they were unable to re-enter the city.
Thus Mukden fell, the prelude to a series of further victories, one of which was the rout of an army sent to retake Mukden, and the chief of which was the capture of Liao-yang, now remembered in connection with the Russo-Japanese war.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/asian/ChinaandtheManchus/chap2.html   (2939 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Manchuria
By the Treaty of Portsmouth both Russia and Japan agreed to evacuate simultaneously Manchuria, with the exception of the portion of the Liao-tung peninsula leased to Russia and surrendered to Japan, and to retrocede the administration of the province to China.
By the regulations for mines and railways, approved by the Emperor of China on 19 Nov., 1893, it had been stipulated that mining and railway questions in the three Manchurian provinces, in Shan-tung, and at Lung-chou, being affected by international questions, shall not hereafter be invoked as precedents by the Chinese or foreign authorities.
Southern Manchuria (Mukden) includes 32 European and 8 native priests, 23,354 Christians, and 8406 catechumens; 4 churches and 86 chapels; 32 schools for boys and 31 for girls; 11 orphanages; 15 sisters of Providence of Portieux and 30 native sisters.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/09585a.htm   (1276 words)

  
 I Left My Heart In Old Mukden Or, How I Survived Miraculously While Almost Nobody Died
During his stay in Mukden Camp as a result of the hard work and poor food, he lost over sixty pounds in weight” (pp.
The delegate of the International Red Cross Committee express much satisfaction of his visit and the kindness of the Red Cross of Manchukuo, and signalize at the same time, that the officers attached to the camp are making the utmost effort in order to ameliorate the treatment of the prisoners of war”.
The measures to protect against aerial attacks have been taken; the hygienic institutions are satisfactory, and this camp is disinfected whenever it seems to be necessary.
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 Mitsubishi: Empire of Exploitation (Unjust Enrichment) by Linda Goetz Holmes
Although there appeared to be an unusually high level of Japanese medical activity at the Mukden POW camp, incidents of Japanese medical personnel giving injections to POWs in an unusual way at several locations in the home islands have already been cited.
As in the Mukden interviews, the incidents just discussed were mentioned by ex-POWs who contacted the author to relate other, specific details about their slave labor work at a number of Japanese company worksites.
One of the POW hospitals at Mukden was the site of the only visit the camp ever received from a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and it occurred less than two weeks before the war ended.
www.mitsubishisucks.com /slave-labor/linda-holmes   (4159 words)

  
 EVENTS 1931
A section of the South Manchurian railway north of Mukden dynamited.
Mukden and Changchun bombed and occupied by the Japanese.
The Japanese forces are being withdrawn to the fullest extent which is at present allowed by the maintenance of the safety of Japanese nationals and the protection of the railway." [Reply of the Japanese Government, Sept. 24, 1931.] Ibid., pp.
www.ibiblio.org /pha/events/1931.html   (1993 words)

  
 Gunboards - Mukden Type 38   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As you might know Mukden is in Manchuria and was called Hoten by the Japanese.
Mukden 38s are uncommon, however, not as rare as Concentric Circle, Mexican Contract, Artilery Spotter, or matched original "no" series 38s.
I have a Mukden carbine that looks new with the heaviest grinding I have of a mum, and a Mukden made rifle that is well used by mummed and matching.
www.gunboards.com /forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2411   (609 words)

  
 F. H. King: Farmers of Forty Centuries--Chapter 16
In the region of Mukden, Manchuria, its average yield of seed is placed at thirty-five bushels of sixty pounds weight per acre, and with this comes one and a half tons of fuel or of building material.
The leaves had dropped, the beans had been picked from the stems, and a little later, when the roots had had time to decay the bean stems would be pulled and tied in bundles for use as fuel or for fertilizer.
It was fearfully and wonderfully done, laid in the smoothest, glossiest fl, with nearly the lateral spread of the tail of a turkey cock and much of the backward curve of that of the rooster; far less attractive than the plainer, refined, modest, yet highly artistic style adopted by either Chinese or Japanese ladies.
www.soilandhealth.org /01aglibrary/010122king/ffc16.html   (6421 words)

  
 Rescue at Mukden
The largest camp was at Hoten, three miles northeast of Mukden, in an industrial area adjacent to the main rail line leading to the city of Harbin.
The railroad movements from Mukden to Darien occurred on 10 and 11 September.
The early arrival of the OSS contact team (even before Soviet troops were on the scene), the additional assistance of POW Recovery Team No. 1, and the cooperation of the Soviet forces in the area assured the timely and comparatively smooth evacuation of the US prisoners of war from Manchuria.
www.mansell.com /pow_resources/camplists/china_hk/mukden_evac.html   (723 words)

  
 Mukden Incident
Mukden and Changchun fell quickly; all of Jilin was in Japanese hands by September 21.
The Japanese moved with such precision that it was clear that the offensive had been carefully planned in advance and was not a spur-of-the-moment reaction to a provocative act.
The Mukden incident touched off a crisis between Japan and China that would not ease until the following year when the Japanese installed a puppet regime in Manchuria to safeguard their interests.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1507.html   (405 words)

  
 Untitled Document
After the Republic of China was founded in 1912, Mukden served as the center for several warlords, notably Zhang Zuolin, who ruled the northern provinces from 1916 until he was assassinated in 1928.
In September 1931 a Japanese captain was murdered in an event now known as the Mukden Incident, causing the Japanese to attack Mukden and occupy all of Manchuria.
From 1949 to 1954 the Communists made Mukden, called Shenyang once again, the capital of Dongbei, the northeastern region of China that formed one of the country's six large administrative regions at that time.
www.upf.es /materials/huma/central/historia/asiaweb/seminari/0203/materials/perkins/p454.htm   (837 words)

  
 Battle of Mukden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Battle of Mukden was the last major battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought from February 20 to March 10, 1905 between Japan and Russia near Mukden in Manchuria.
The preceding Battle of Liaoyang (August 24, 1904 - September 4, 1904) forced the Russians to retreat to the river Sha Ho near Mukden.
Subsequently, General Kuropatkin ordered a retreat to the north, leading to the collapse of the Russian forces in Mukden and the total evacuation of the Russian forces out of Mukden on March 10.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/battle_of_mukden   (375 words)

  
 Mukden Incident -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It has sometimes been compared with the (Click link for more info and facts about burning of the Reichstag) burning of the Reichstag in (A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990) Germany.
Then Japanese Prime Minister (Click link for more info and facts about Ryutaro Hashimoto) Ryutaro Hashimoto was one of the notable visitors of the museum in 1997.
The Mukden Incident is depicted in the (Click link for more info and facts about Tintin) Tintin book (Click link for more info and facts about The Blue Lotus) The Blue Lotus.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mu/mukden_incident.htm   (485 words)

  
 Through Darkest Zymurgia! Chapter 22
Mukden shouted out something in a jovial tone of voice, and the crowd twittered as they settled onto the ground.
Mukden gestured at it as he spoke, apparently describing it, and then looked expectantly at the crowd.
Mukden nodded to the fellow, and waited patiently as the man came forward to collect the robe.
www.wjduquette.com /tales/zymurgia/chapter22.html   (1834 words)

  
 Life as a prisoner of WWII by Ray Benning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
During their stay in Mukden Camp, as a result of the hard work and poor food, they lost alot of weight.
Remains of POWs buried in the camp cemetery were identified and prepared for exhumation and eventual reburial in permanent American military cemeteries.
Evacuation of American POWs from the Mukden area began shortly after the initial OSS team arrived and ended by mid-September.
www.inhnews.com /year05/aug/aug17/prisoner.html   (1986 words)

  
 Military.com Content
We arrived there at Hoten Prison of War Camp at Mukden, Manchuria, where we were kept as prisoners of war until August 17, 1945, when the Russians liberated us.
Upon arriving at Fusan, Korea, we disembarked and were put aboard a train bound for Mukden.
Most of the deaths that occured from the first winter were on account of extreme cold so soon after leaving the tropics.
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 AllRefer.com - Mukden Incident (Chinese And Taiwanese History) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
AllRefer.com - Mukden Incident (Chinese And Taiwanese History) - Encyclopedia
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 The G.I.'s Were Japan's Worker Slaves. Believe It.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
During that first winter at Mukden, at least 260 men are believed to have died.
The ground froze so deep in the intense cold that the men could not be buried, so their bodies were kept in a room until springtime.
Greg Rodriquez Jr., whose late father was a Mukden prisoner, said guards had held feathers under the noses of sleeping prisoners, a known method of spreading bacteria.
www.nytimes.com /2003/09/19/international/asia/19CHIN.html?ex=1379304000&en=3992a1eeba73cc37&ei=5007   (1026 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Linda Goetz Holmes on Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He describes the arrival of the first group of (1,202) American POWs at Mukden in November 1942, most already sick and weakened from surviving the Bataan Death March, conditions at their Philippine camps, and a horrendous sea voyage in unspeakable conditions aboard a Japanese merchant ship.
Mukden was about 350 miles away from Unit 731 headquarters at Harbin, but the prisoners had no way of knowing about General Ishii¹s operation, so they had no idea where the visiting Japanese doctors came from, or what the purpose of their visits was.
In beginning his discussion of the Mukden camp, Harris states: "The paucity of available records makes it impossible for the modern researcher to offer a definitive answer" as to whether medical experiments on POWs took place there (p.
www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=221791052131717   (2933 words)

  
 Never Forgotton - Summer 1999 - Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In the spring of 1945 he was transferred to Camp Hoten in Mukden, Manchuria.
His service number was 6287686 and his Mukden camp number was 1837.
We know he was only in Mukden for three/four months, at most, so our guess would be, he spent most of his time in Taiwan.
www.powtaiwan.org /pownewsfall99/pownews_pg8.htm   (934 words)

  
 Germ warfare
Many of the 1,500 American soldiers who were captured in the Philippines and taken to Mukden, Manchuria, have long suspected that they, too, were victims of germ-warfare experiments.
In 1986, James told a House of Representatives subcommittee that the captured Americans, along with several hundred British and Australian soldiers, were met in Mukden on Nov. 11, 1942, by a team of Japanese medical personnel wearing masks.
But the Mukden survivors have found a new ally -- Jesse Brown, the secretary of veterans affairs, who recently fired off a letter to Defense Secretary William Perry, asking him to finally seek the truth about Mukden.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/packages/ccic/cnd/InfoBase/NJMassacre/germ-warfare1.html   (2517 words)

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