Word: shensi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago they performed one of the most extraordinary military feats of modern times: the great 2,000 mile retreat of a Communist army-cut off from supplies, living off the country, constantly harassed by the greatly superior forces of Chiang Kai-shek-from Fukien through western China to Shensi Province, where they set up another Communist state...
...wish to die in battle against the Japanese. We are sure we can recover the lost territory of Manchuria." Before they can do anything of the sort, the Communist armies must move north-east some 350 miles to encounter the Japanese at Tatung in the northern edge of Shensi Province...
...other Chinese force, strictly brought up in the Christian virtues for years by the Methodist Generalissimo. That these soldiers might be morally too good was a fear to which their General Ku gave discreet expression last week. "If you observe the people of Sian and its province of Shensi smoking opium, ignore it for the present," he ordered, just before his troops finally entered Sian this week, apparently unresisted. "Hold your peace. We wish to forget that this Sian. trouble ever occurred. When in Sian you are seeking lodgings, ascertain that they are not occupied. Never seize quarters by force...
...Nationalist Government. Japanese junks landed huge cargoes of silk, rayon, woolen goods, cosmetics and, most of all, sugar at Hopei fishing villages. Trucks and canal boats, most of them flying Japanese flags, smuggled the goods into Peiping and Tientsin, have recently extended the trade to Kiangsu, Anhwei, Honan, Shensi and even Kansu province...
...days later the Government proudly opened the first railway ever to pierce remote Shensi Province and connect with the 20th Century world legendary Sian, capital of China during the Ts'in, Han and T'ang dynasties (246 B.C.-907 A.D.). As opened last week the railway is the newest link in a line that strikes 650 miles into Central China, connects Sian with Shanghai, Nanking and Peiping. Later it will stab on 400 miles further to Lanchow, remote outpost just south of the Great Wall. All last week excited passengers, most of whom had galloped in on horseback...