Word: turkestan
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...humor, that leading Chinese characteristic, somewhat lightened the tragedy of flight from the Capital last week. Discharged but grinning Govern-ment clerks called to each other such jokes as "See you in Sinkiang!"-thus jocularly implying that the Government may ultimately flee 2,000 miles to remote Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan...
...polyglot group of diplomatic officials, business men and bankers. On board were the staff of the American embassy in Russia, headed by First Secretary Bailey; the staff of the Japanese embassy, headed by Viscount Uchida; the staff of the Chinese and Brazilian ministries; and the Crown Prince of Turkestan. American civilians included part of the staffs of the Petrograd and Moscow branches of the National City Bank of New York (including myself) ; YMCA and YWCA workers; trade representatives; and George Sokolsky, editor [at .that time! of the Russian Daily News...
...week advanced the Japanese felt more and more convinced that the Chinese-Soviet non-intervention treaty signed fortnight ago contained a great deal more than appeared on the surface. From Russian Turkestan to Inner Mongolia (with direct connection to Moscow) a Soviet air line was reported suddenly established last week. Among the first passengers is expected none other than sallow Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, whose "kidnapping" of Chiang Kai-shek was one of the preliminary steps to last week's war. Naming places, Japan charged that 72 of 210 Russian military planes had been delivered to Nationalist China...
...treaty of mutual assistance signed between Soviet Russia and an Asiatic nation early this spring was designed to check Japanese aggression in (1 Manchukuo, 2 Chinese Turkestan, 3 Indo-China, 4 Outer Mongolia, 5 Tibet...
...many obscure but important ways the Chinese people are far in advance of Eastern men elsewhere, and that in them ultimately and inevitably resides the cultural leadership of Asia. . . . Two years of undeclared war with Japan have not perceptibly shaken China" but if Japan succeeds in detaching Chinese Turkestan "that would complete a period of fifty years of decline, during which 3,000,000 square miles of territory had been detached from the anatomy of China...