Changteh
Britishnoun
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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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Six days later, the survivors returned with reinforcements to retake Changteh.
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Nevertheless, as a onetime commander of the Nationalist 26th Army in Yunnan and leader of the long-drawn-out defense of Changteh against the Japanese in 1943, he was a soldier worth wooing to any cause.
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There had been no bubonic plague in Changteh for ten generations, but within a week there were six cases.
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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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