Word: lanchow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obstinate, primitive, multimillioned man power that is performing this heroic transformation is Kukan's theme. These are people that most U.S. cinemaddicts have never seen or known. They are shy, handsome, aboriginal Miaos from the mountains of Kweichow; turbaned Mohammedans from Lanchow, heart of China's northwest frontier; greasy nomads from The Gobi; Lamas from Tibet; Hans; Manchus...
Threatened with the loss of the Burma Road, Chungking talked of leaning more heavily on the long-way-round supply line that helped greatly when Britain closed the Burma Road last year-the 3,100-mile rail and caravan route from Vladivostok to Chita and Lanchow. But last week Soviet Russia and Japan sat down to negotiate a trade treaty-which might lead to the long-prophesied non-aggression pact and the closing of Vladivostok to supplies for China...
Japan has just about given up the idea of taking Chungking. Her objectives, all of which she may be able to get, are: 1) Sian, main link between North China and Chungking; 2) Lanchow, key to Rus sian aid to China; 3) a complete cut-through in the Southwest...
...last two years Lanchow has meant even more to the "Free China" of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. It is the eastern terminus for the much-needed war supplies that come from the Soviet Union. Instead of the wool, fur, brick tea, vegetable oil and camel hair that used to be the lifeblood of Lanchow's trade, now airplane engines, bombs, ammunition, gasoline, military trucks are the chief commodities. The city is also the concentration point for China's slowly building Air Force. So important a military secret has Lanchow become in the scheme of war that in two years...
...changed is Lanchow's trade now that shop signs are in Russian, Russian cigarets are offered by peddlers, Russian aviators, mechanics, traders are seen everywhere, although they keep to themselves socially. The "representative" of the Russian Ambassador to China meets there with the Chinese Foreign Office's special delegate to go over details of the munitions trade. Slowly the Japanese have also waked up to the importance of Lanchow. Last week they decided to do something about it. For three days Japanese aviators bombed the city, sending over as many as 101 airplanes in one raid. The Japanese...