Chinese Turkestan
Britishnoun
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Across the Himalayas, at Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan, almost in mid-Asia, the Haardt party was to be met by seven other cars which had left Peiping when the first party left Beirut.
From Time Magazine Archive
Against all advice they had penetrated the snow-blocked Pamirs into Russian Turkestan, threaded the glaciered Tian-Shan range, crossed Chinese Turkestan and headed for Urga in Mongolia.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Urumchi, in Chinese Turkestan, officials halted the party, held three of the cars there.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over all Chinese Turkestan the Government of nationalist China has reassumed full authority.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is officially reported in St. Petersburg that a force of Chinese soldiers and villagers surrounded the house of a Russian subject named Said Effendi, near Khotan, in Chinese Turkestan.
From The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Rohmer, Sax
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