Tientsin incident
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This article is about the international incident between Japan and Britain in 1939. For the 1931 operation by Japan to place Puyi on the throne of Manchuria, see Tientsin Incident (1931).
The Tientsin incident (天津事件) was an international incident created by a blockade by the Imperial Japanese Army's Japanese North China Area Army of the British settlements in the north China treaty port of Tientsin (modern day Tianjin) in June 1939. Originating as a minor administrative dispute, it escalated into a major diplomatic incident.
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Part of Second Sino-Japanese War | |||||||
British soldiers behind the barbed wire barricade erected by the Japanese around the British and French concessions in Tientsin in June 1939 | |||||||
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United Kingdom | Japan |
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