Word: ninghsia
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General Hu had to abandon Yenan to save his northern flank. Then he raced westward to hold the Szechuan passes. An urgent call to roly-poly Governor Ma Hung-kwei of Ninghsia Province brought him two divisions of tough Moslem caval ry. In one of the Nationalists' few well-executed maneuvers, the Reds were boxed by superior force and fire power near Pao-chi, a river crossing on the way to Szechuan...
...China now claims 80,000,000 people and 1,000,000 square miles of territory. For five years it has been a land of mystery to the outside world. Last May Chungking lifted its blockade, let foreign correspondents enter the Border Region, the Communist area in Shensi, Kansu and Ninghsia...
...Here in the South we are overpopulated but in the Northwest are great spaces where one may travel for days and hardly meet a fellow traveler. There are wide stretches of fertile land around Ninghsia which were densely populated in the days of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-221 A.D.), which are now desolate. But in various sections of this area one may find foreigners entrenched-little, independent kingdoms with their own police, schools, hospitals and wide roads of their own construction...
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