9.18 the Mukden Incident, Tintin and The Blue Lotus

At 10 o’clock in parts of China each year today on 9.18 or the 18th September, sirens will sound and a bell will be rung in Mukden (Shenyang) in China.

What does this have to do with Tintin?

https://sidetracked2017blog.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/the-faked-railway-explosion-that-led-to-war-the-manchurian-or-mukden-incident-china-18-september-1931/

Crossposted from my occasional railway history and gaming blog Sidetracked, by Man of TIN, 18th September 2018.