 This territory was important for Germany and it allowed Germany to be encircled by the Western Powers.In the Far East in the same period certain individuals such as Reginald Johnston (Puyi's tutor), Brigade General F.H.Burnell-Nugent (chief of the British embassy guards in Tien-Tsin), among others supported the Japanese plans related to the Mukden Incident, the creation of the puppet state of Manchukuo and the open Japanese intervention in Northeast China.