South Manchuria

English

Proper noun

South Manchuria

1. the region of Japanese control of Northeast China, prior to the establishment of Manchukuo
   • 1927 November 13, Hallett Abend, “GRIM STRUGGLE ON TO RULE MANCHURIA; China, Russia and Japan Bid for Supremacy of Vast Domain, Realizing It May End in War. DAIREN A SPOTLESS CITY Built by Japan, It Is Clean and Modern In Contrast to Dirty and Inefficient Towns of South. GRIM STRUGGLE ON TO RULE MANCHURIA”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 January 2024, EDITORIALE, page 1‎^[2]:

     DAIREN, South Manchuria, Oct. 12. -- South China with its Communists, the Yangtse Valley with rampant anti-foreignism and incessant civil warfare and Peking with Marshal Chang Tso-lin attempting to consolidate his dictatorship and found a stable central Government -- these seem to be the major constituents of the Chinese problem until one visits Manchuria.

   • 1931 December 28, Hugh Byas, “BIG JAPANESE FORCE REACHES MANCHURIA AS NEW DRIVE OPENS; 4,000 to 5,000 Men Arrive by Sea and Land and Tokyo Will Send More." FROZEN RIVER IS CROSSED Tamon, Captor of Tsitsihar, Reported in Sharp Fights on Way to Chinchow. CHINESE TRY TO CHECK HIM Corps of 2,400 Students Reaches Threatened City--America Makes Protest on "Open Door." Concentration at Yingkow. Troops Arrive By Sea and Land. BIG JAPANESE FORCE REACHES MANCHURIA Sharp Fighting Reported.”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 October 2023, page 1‎^[4]:

     Operations in South Manchuria have now gone deeply into the preliminary phase of a drive from Yingkow northwestward along the Yingkow branch of the Peiping-Mukden Railroad.

Usage notes

South Manchuria is an extension of the South Manchuria Railway Zone, where the Japanese Empire extended control from its concession zone (the zone around the rail line) out into Manchuria

See also

• Inner Manchuria
• Outer Manchuria
• Empire of Manchuria