Those in control of the main body of Japanese forces in Manchuria believed that the time had passed for temporizing and compromise. In the summer of 1931 the friction expressed itself in minor incidents. Zhang Xueliang, Zhang Zuolin’s son and the ruler of Manchuria after his father’s murder by Japanese officers in 1928, was increasingly disposed to ally himself with the Kuomintang ( Nationalist Party) and its desire to rid China of foreign control. In an attempt to assert their independence, the Chinese began building a series of railroads that would in part encircle the Japanese lines and terminate at Huludao, a port which the Chinese were developing.
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