Post by NZBC on May 31, 2008 19:01:08 GMT 12
Presbyterian Church Archives Photo Gallery No 11 : "The China Incident"
To coincide with Anzac Day, our Autumn Gallery takes a varied look at images taken in China during the war between Nationalist Koumintang and Imperial Japanese forces, variously known as the "Second Sino-Japanese War" or (as war was never actually declared) "The China Incident".
In 1931, and in order to pursue its own interests, Imperial Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria and set up a 'puppet' Government. Using brutal military force, Imperial Japan continued to extend its sphere of occupation and control further south. Shanghai and Nanjing fell in 1937, Wuhan following in 1938. Incursions into Chinese territory were also made further south. After violent aerial bombings, Canton [Guangzhou] fell in October 1938, enabling the Japanese to blackade the Pearl River and thus cut off the flow of supplies.
From 1938 until 1941, when America entered the war, our Missionaries based around Canton within 'occupied China' carrried on their Mission activites under the 'supervision' of the Japanese military. Although no physical ill-treatment took place, staff were subjected to a myriad of new bureaucratic regulations and often outright harassment. Untold patience was required of Mission staff.
www.archives.presbyterian.org.nz/photogallery11/page1.htm
To coincide with Anzac Day, our Autumn Gallery takes a varied look at images taken in China during the war between Nationalist Koumintang and Imperial Japanese forces, variously known as the "Second Sino-Japanese War" or (as war was never actually declared) "The China Incident".
In 1931, and in order to pursue its own interests, Imperial Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria and set up a 'puppet' Government. Using brutal military force, Imperial Japan continued to extend its sphere of occupation and control further south. Shanghai and Nanjing fell in 1937, Wuhan following in 1938. Incursions into Chinese territory were also made further south. After violent aerial bombings, Canton [Guangzhou] fell in October 1938, enabling the Japanese to blackade the Pearl River and thus cut off the flow of supplies.
From 1938 until 1941, when America entered the war, our Missionaries based around Canton within 'occupied China' carrried on their Mission activites under the 'supervision' of the Japanese military. Although no physical ill-treatment took place, staff were subjected to a myriad of new bureaucratic regulations and often outright harassment. Untold patience was required of Mission staff.
www.archives.presbyterian.org.nz/photogallery11/page1.htm