Tientsin Incident, xenophobic Japanese aggression towards British subjects in Tientsin (1932)
I have heard of this incident but it happened in June of 1939. Or is there another?
Tientsin Incident, the blockade by the Japanese occupying army in China of the British and French settlements in the North China Treaty Port of Tientsin in June 1939. Originating as a minor administrative dispute and escalated into a major international issue. Four Chinese, who allegedly killed a Japanese customs officer, took refuge there. On June 14. Japan blockaded British and French concessions, mistreated British, and interfered with their shipping at Tientsin.
Reasons for the incident are said to include the hostility engendered by Japan's occupation of China; the role of Tientsin in Japan's narcotics trade; a growing tendency within Japan to utilize any opportunity to blame western powers and particularly Britain for Japan's Chinese occupation woes; and British and French efforts to take advantage of the incident to pressure the United States to shore up their waning imperial interests in Asia by adopting a more overtly anti-Japanese stance.Asiaticus 09:25, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
There is this:
In 1932 there was a riot in Tientsin, suppressed by Japanese troops firing over their heads. Rumored to have been paid for by the Japanese.
"At Tientsin, second largest Chinese port, a Chinese mob of 2,000 clashed with Chinese police near the borderline between the Chinese City and the Japanese Concession. Arrested mobsmen swore later that they had been paid $40 Mex. ($10) each by Japanese agents provocateurs. However this might be the Japanese garrison commander repulsed rioters from the vicinity of the Japanese concession with a warning burst of machine gun fire, then unlimbered his field pieces and dropped 40 small explosive shells in the Chinese quarter of Tientsin." Two War Lords, Time Magazine Nov. 16, 1931
Suiyuan Incident , better known as Xi'an Incident (1936)
Suiyuan Incident is actually Suiyuan Campaign (1936)Asiaticus 09:27, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
There are also the Red Flag Incident and the High Treason Incident. NicoRay (talk) 14:40, 29 February 2012 (UTC)