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Changteh

British  
/ ˈtʃæŋˈteɪ /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Changde

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Changteh is little more than a hundred miles from Japanese lines, and the disease travels as fast today as when it ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages.

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If warm weather brought an epidemic to Changteh, the disease might sweep to the Japanese.

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The junk was lolloping along 20 miles short of Changteh when it was overhauled and seized by the bandits.

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Simultaneously Sun Lien-chung struck north from Changteh against the Japanese rear with a mighty blow.

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The impression was exaggerated: the battle of Changteh was violent enough, but it was an interlude in an essentially unviolent war.

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