- a variation of Zhengzhou.
Chengchow
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In Chengchow, ... two Shanghai cotton brokers reported "all was quiet."
From Time Magazine Archive
To the south, Nationalist troops withdrew from Chengchow, railway center of Honan Province, and from Kaifeng, the provincial capital.
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On the main battle front at Chengchow, 300 miles on a direct rail line north of Hankow, the Japanese forces last week made only small gains.
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To the Japanese, who had been pushing along the railroad toward Chengchow, hoping to make it a base for their southerly drive to Hankow, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's provisional capital, the flood was a severe setback.
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Capture of Chengchow would enable the Japanese to right-angle down 300 miles of railway to Hankow.
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