14 times! Alarm bells ring to remember national humiliation | September 18 Incident
This year marks the 93rd anniversary of the Mukden incident (9.18 / September 18 incident).
On Wednesday morning (Sept. 18), Shenyang, Liaoning Province, northeast China, where the September 18 incident occurred, held a ceremony to ring the bell and sound the alarm.
The alarm bell rang 14 times on behalf of the Chinese nation's 14 years of struggle against Japanese aggression.
At 9.18 am, air-raid sirens were sounded simultaneously in 14 cities across Liaoning province. Motor vehicles on main streets stop and sound their horns. Ships and trains also sound their whistles.
History review
The "September 18 Incident" launch was a long-premeditated important invasion step by the Japanese Imperialists to annex China and dominate Asia and the Pacific Region. Early in the summer of 1927, the Japanese Cabinet held the "Oriental Meeting" and mapped out the "Political Platform towards China" in Tokyo, proclaiming that the Northeast China "has great interests in terms of (Japan's) national defence and people's existence". In July of the same year, the cabinet prime minister Tanaka Giichi submitted the"Tanaka Memorial" to the Mikado, publicly proclaiming: "To conquer China, we must first conquer Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, and to conquer the world, we must first conquer China", thereby decided the presumptuous strategy of establishing invasion bases in "Manchuria and Mongolia."
In 1931, the Japanese Army Headquarters secretly formulated the principles, steps, and measures for invading Northeast China. After careful preparation for the invasion war, the Japanese Imperialists blatantly launched the "September 18 Incident", it was a prelude to all-around armed invasions to China, then Asia and the Pacific Region.
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