51�Թ�

At the time, the city was known as Hsinking and was the capital of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.

He went first to Manchukuo, and while he was being toasted in champagne by Japanese officials in Hsinking, his wife�was arrested snapping pictures in the streets.

To the northwest they go to Dairen, Mukden and Hsinking in Manchukuo; to the south they reach the tiny islands of Palau, 500 miles closer to the U.S. than the Philippines, continue on to Portuguese Timor in the East Indies; to the west they roar to Shanghai, other Chinese cities; to the southwest they fly over Formosa to Canton, then over French Indo-China to Bangkok in pro-Japanese Thailand.

In Hsinking, fast-booming capital of Japan's puppet Empire of Manchukuo, the official Manchukuo News Agency dispatched last week this hot wire concerning hollow-eyed Emperor Kang Te: Off to the Willard Hotel one evening last week rode President Roosevelt to sit with Cabinet members, Senators, newspapermen, miscellaneous bigwigs, hear his New Deal joshed at the semi-annual stag dinner of the Gridiron Club.

Newsclown Will Rogers paused at Hsinking. the capital of Manchukuo's puppet Emperor to remark:*"This country is so mad at Russia they've broken off the diplomatic relations that never existed."