The Wanpoashan Incident - The Matrix Games version of Rising Sun

Curt Cabbage
1 July 1931
Wanpoashan area, Manchuria, 1 July 1931: [H2H] [HHISB] [Curt
Cabbage]:
Wanpaoshan was a small village some 18 miles
north of Changchun, in Manchuria, in a low marshy area alongside
the Itung river. A group of ethnic Koreans (who were regarded
at the time as subjects of the Japanese Empire) subleased a large
tract of land from a local Chinese broker and prepared to irrigate
by digging a ditch several kilometers long, extending from the
Itung river across a tract of land not included in their lease
and occupied by local Chinese farmers.
After a considerable
length of the ditch had been dug, the Chinese farmers protested
to the Wanpaoshan local authorities, who dispatched police and
ordered the Koreans to cease construction at once and leave the
area. The Imperial Japanese Consul based at Changchun responded
by sending Japanese consular police to protect the Koreans, and
both Japanese and Chinese authorities in Changchun agreed to
a joint investigation. However, before the joint investigation
could be launched, a party of 400 Chinese farmers whose lands
were cut by the irrigation ditch, armed with agricultural implements,
pikes and handmade guns, drove the Koreans away and filled in
much of the ditch. The Japanese consular police took a shooting
stance to disperse the mob and to protect the Korean farmers.
Both sides stared at each other for about an hour. The Chinese
farmers withdrew, and the Japanese police remained on the spot
until the Koreans completed the ditch and a dam across the Itung
River. Japanese police officers and Koreans were not injured,
but several Chinese were injured. Several Chinese were captured,
but were brought back by Chinese public security officials.