21 Sep 1931
China
China
- The Japanese installed Colonel Kenji Doihara as the mayor of Mukden, Liaoning Province, China. ww2dbase [Kenji Doihara | Mukden, Liaoning | CPC]
- Sun Du was assigned to the military staff of warlord Long Yun of Yunnan Province, China. ww2dbase [Sun Du | Yunnan | CPC]
- V. K. "Wellington" Koo, the Chinese delegate to the League of Nations, appealed to the international community over the Japanese attacks in northeastern China. The league would soon dispatch a delegation headed by British Lord V. A. G. R. Bulwer-Lytton to China to investigate. ww2dbase [Mukden Incident | Wellington Koo | Geneva | CPC]
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