Word: turfan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consul at Tihwa, in China's far western Sinkiang province, when Communist armies began pressing close. With his wife, an ex-Army nurse, the embassy staff and their wives & children, he started the long trek out by truck and jeep, through the depths of the sweltering Turfan Depression, and across the 18,300-ft. Karakoram Pass, until they made safety in a Kashmir village...
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