Word: urumchi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tihua, the Russians maintain a busy consulate general, a branch of their Foreign Trade Commissariat, the Sino-Soviet Aviation Corp., a branch of the Sino-Soviet Cultural Association, a school and a hospital. On Sundays, most of Tihua's Russians (more than 200 in all) go up the Urumchi River for an isolated picnic. In northwest Sinkiang and the western outpost of Kashgar there are even more Russians. Sinkiang workmen are mining valuable wolfram for them at Fuwen; others are tapping the rich oil pools at Wusu...
Gold and Tungsten. Sinkiang is mostly a vast grazing land, cut up by high mountains, in which are valuable gold and tungsten deposits and narrow, fertile valleys. Its capital, Tihwa (Urumchi), is the crossroads of the age-old silk caravan routes between China and the West...
...shek-"far beyond the end of the Great Wall, out over the ancient caravan route, six oases to Baboon pass, six oases to Kami, along the rim of the Celestial Mountains, past the Red Salt Lake and the Blue Salt Lake." It is two days by plane to Urumchi and then two weeks by ancient truck across the drifting, trackless desert to Kashgar near the Russian border...
...airport in Urumchi we first met 'the boys'-on hand to greet the incoming planes with appropriate ceremony: tommy guns, rifles, pistols, all sorts of assorted hardware. It's a tough country up there and guns are always handy. Even when we banqueted on sea-slugs with the governor we noticed that the white-aproned waiters carried Mausers on their hips...
...Urumchi is full of bloody touches (like the nice flat place where the Moslems slaughtered 40,000 Chinese in cold blood) and we spent about a week there being entertained royally and well. Then we got another plane across the Tien Shan Mountains to Kuldja in the Hi Valley in a regular land of milk and honey, where we gorged ourselves on chicken and beef and white rolls and fruit...