Chekiang
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Last year there was an outbreak of plague in Chekiang, and the bureau rushed vaccines and fumigants to kill germ-bearing rats.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the eastern theater, in Chekiang Province, where the Japanese Army wants to seize airfield's within reach of Japan and Formosa, Japanese reinforcements poured in from east, north and southeast, forming a huge, closing maw.
From Time Magazine Archive
For more than an hour and a half he spoke in his high-pitched Chekiang accent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over the past two years, some 1,500 men have been put ashore in Chekiang and Kwangtung provinces.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Chekiang province farm labor employed by the year received $30 and board, ten years ago, but now is receiving $50.
From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)
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