100 YEARS AGO
Sunday, Sept. 4, 1910
A dispatch from Mukden [present-day Shenyang in Liaoning Province] says that the local Chinese papers have begun to comment upon the annexation. Most of them, like their Shanghai and Peking contemporaries, find a good mirror to see themselves in the annexation of Korea and predict imminent danger to Manchuria. Some of them state that the ruin of Korea did not begin with the annexation but had already commenced at the time of her becoming a protectorate, and that China may follow in Korea's footsteps unless she was on alert. A semi-official organ has sarcastically claimed that Japan is absorbing other land based on the beautiful plea that is done "for the sake of peace in the Far East."
75 YEARS AGO
Friday, Sept. 13, 1935