Manchurian Incident/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Manchurian Incident.

A fake attack on the South Manchurian Railway Company, staged by Kwangtung Army officers, in September 1931, which was the pretext for Japanese military action outside the Kwangtung Leasehold and throughout Manchuria