Word: lanchow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warmer comment in the U. S. than: "It's about time"; 2) It looked more & more as though a "non-treaty situation" would exist after Jan. 26, when the abrogated Treaty of 1911 lapses; 3) Although the Army in China was having episodic successes in Lanchow and the Southwest, war still dragged on; 4) At home Japan had a severe shortage of rice and fuel...
...Kansu, China's most northwestern province, is situated the sizable city of Lanchow, for centuries China's gateway to Central Asia and beyond. Also through this city the Tartar, Turk, Hun, Mongol, Buddhist and Christian first entered the broad, populous Chinese basin below the Great Wall...
...mile above sea level, Lanchow lies in a cup surrounded by mountains at the point where the Yellow River intercepts the old desert route from Turkestan to Peking. Inside its mud walls and high gates is found a desert melting pot of Mongols, Turks, Tibetans, Manchus. Moslems who have long thrived on the city's far-flung trade. At Lanchow, Bactrian camels dump full caravan loads that have been hauled 1,500 miles from the Turkestan-Siberian railhead in Kazakistan. By camelback are brought dates from Turkestan, raisins and apricots from Turfan...