Word: inlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Britain's Ambassador to China, Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, set out from Hong Kong to have a talk with Chiang Kaishek. That is not an easy thing to do nowadays. Sir Archibald had to hire an airplane, fly five or six hundred miles inland over a maze of twisting rivers and search out the Generalissimo "somewhere in Hunan Province...
...area is only a little distance inland from Junean, the capital of the great northwestern territory, yet until the coming of aviation an a means of geographic exploration it moved only as the grave yard for many a lost prospector in the old gold rush days...
...this [i.e. the fall of Hankow, Canton and before that Shanghai, North China and Manchukuo]. For years we have concentrated on development of West China, where bases for operations are established and where we will prolong resistance until victory is ours. We hope to lure the enemy further inland. The farther they come the sooner victory will be ours...
Thus-for the short term-greater or less Chinese success in resisting Japan is directly dependent: 1) upon how much finished war material the Soviet Union is willing and able to ship over remaining inland routes, as the Japanese have already cut the best; 2) on Chinese ability to equip themselves with the products of new arsenals set up in the Wild West...
...Greenland for a few weeks or several years. Eventually he embarked again, sailed westward through Hudson Strait into Hudson Bay, whose waters his party found teeming with cod and salmon, the shores abounding with caribou, musk ox, ducks, geese, loons. From the southern shore of Hudson Bay, they journeyed inland through a chain of lakes and rivers, finally started overland on an Indian portage which leads to Lake Superior. In Ontario, some two miles from a place now named Beardmore, the Norseman died or was killed by Indians. He was buried there with his sword, shield...