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UK May-Aug 1912

- The Royal Navy is mobilised. The naval garrison at Hong Kong leaves the harbour, to train their guns on the Japanese ships. The government at Hong Kong calls for the Japanese to end their illegal blockade of a British territory.

- The size of the Royal Navy is so: 16 modern dreadnoughts (three under construction), 10 battlecruisers, 20 town cruisers, 15 scout cruisers, 200 destroyers, 29 battleships (pre-dreadnought design) and 150 cruisers built before 1907. It is the largest navy in the world.


 * Of this fleet, in the Pacific there are 9 dreadnoughts, 4 battlecruisers, 12 town cruisers, 5 scout cruisers, 71 destroyers, 10 battleships and 49 cruisers.

- Major rebellions erupt around Korea after the arrest of Korean independence leaders. The freedom fighters call for the end of the occupation of their homeland. Chants of "Death to the Emperor" can be heard on the streets of Seoul. The Japanese garrison in Seoul is stormed, with the occupants inside hung. Weapons and supplies are captured. The situation is similar in many other Korean cities as decades of oppression and brutality come to a head.

- Belgium's request to buy British Malaya is politely turned down, though we offer to sell them Tonga (even if Tonga kind of sucks, it is big enough to appear on maps).

- A counterrally in Hong Kong calling for unity and the expulsion of the Japanese turns violent. Several Japanese businessmen and Japanese spies are lynched and killed.

- Partial mobilisation in British Raj, Malaya, Australia and Canada is declared. British troops assemble on the border of Burma, whilst troop transports carry Canadian soldiers to Malaya.

- Public support in Britain is firmly against Japan. Citizens in the streets of London call for "a war to teach the Nips who's who". There is a surge in people enlisting.

- Britain is not scared of China, considering its an opium-addicted mess that just came out of a civil war (basically Spain in the early 1940s, an economic failure).