Chengchow
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In the offices of the Chungyuen Daily, in Chengchow.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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To the south, Nationalist troops withdrew from Chengchow, railway center of Honan Province, and from Kaifeng, the provincial capital.
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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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In Chengchow, a rail junction for east-west and north-south traffic in Honan, two Shanghai cotton brokers reported "all was quiet."
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