Word: sinkiang
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Only a one-line announcement in Chungking newspapers revealed that Chiang and the Missimo had been in the northwest provinces (Sinkiang, Kansu, Ningsia, Shensi, Chinghai) for several weeks. Whom they talked with and where they went was a wartime secret. Only after Chiang had spoken to his top officials for a full hour did some of the things that he and Mme. Chiang learned become known...
...through Kabul in Afghanistan to Samarkand in Russia. From there goods will be sent along the central Asia plains on the Turkestan-Siberian railway to the Soviet terminus at Alma Ata. The final stage is via the highway the Chinese built along the old Marco Polo trade route through Sinkiang and Kansu provinces to Chungking. The other route leads from Bushire on the Persian Gulf across Iran and then by water to Krasnovodsk on the Caspian Sea. From there the goods will be shipped on to Alma Ata by rail...
...Moslems, had submitted to banishment by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Actually the "banishment" was a tribute to the Gissimo's policy of giving Moslem leaders authority with responsibility. For it was General Ma who in 1937-39 dismounted his cavalry and put them to building the Kansu-Sinkiang highway over which Russian supplies traveled to the Chinese army. Now, with Russia embattled and the Burma Road closed, General Ma was again being asked to do the impossible. Nearly cornered, China must get war supplies from India. Off to put down a roadbed for trucks where Marco Polo's caravans...
Failing supplies via India, China must fall back on two devious, difficult routes from Siberia, across the long reaches of Mongolia and Sinkiang. Truck roads, now built and usable, touch Russia's trans-Siberian railway system at two points. Over these lines recently China has received some of Russia's captured German booty-Mauser rifles, machine guns, antitank and anti-aircraft guns. But Joseph Stalin's own interior war traffic jams his railways, and his outward routes to the United Nations are none too sufficient and secure...
...will ever know how many of the Kazaks and their animals died in the desert, but the caravan finally came into the long panhandle of Kansu Province. Kansu was not better than Sinkiang. The Chinese Moslems did not welcome their coreligionists from the west, and for two years the Kazaks fought a constant guerrilla war. Desperately they decided to move on, as Tartar tribes have done since time immemorial...