Word: sinkiang
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...Sinkiang, a province of barren wastes and rich oases 2,000 miles northwest of Nanking, was still the scene last week of savage guerrilla warfare between wild-eyed Moslem tribesmen and the better equipped Chinese troops sent out to rule them. Sinkiang paper money was worth 3% of its face value. But the threatened secession of Sinkiang from China to join the Soviet Union seemed to have been averted, partly due to the daring of Foreign Minister Lo Wen-kan of Nanking who has just led a "pacification mission" to and from these howling wilds...
...Conditions were appalling." reported Mr. Lo. "Consider that for nearly three years the important trade routes between Sinkiang and ourselves were cut off by disturbed conditions. Consequently practically all of Sinkiang's exportable output was routed to the only remaining outlet- the Soviet Union...
Isolated from Eastern China by mountains, marshes and the Gobi Desert are the Chinese of the western district of Sinkiang. To get to the Pacific coast the westerners once went circuitously north by way of Mongolia, then through Manchuria on the Chinese Eastern Railway. The new state of Manchukuo has stopped that, left the westerners threatened by annual famine. Last week the Nanking Government coiled a life line to throw across the deserts, through the mountains...
...might start from Peiping, dangerously near the Manchukuo border and greedy Japanese eyes; or it might cut southward through the mountains along the Yellow River basin. It might arrow straight west from Nanking to Shensi Province and thence along the overgrown track of the ancient Great Highway to Sinkiang. It might skirt Mongolia, drive monotonously over the wind-marcelled sands of the Gobi, end in the basin of the Tarim River which drains futilely into a marsh. Part of the project was to use the futile Tarim to irrigate arid Sinkiang Province, end its paralyzing famines. To fix where...