Chinese Turkestan
Britishnoun
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At Urumchi, in Chinese Turkestan, officials halted the party, held three of the cars there.
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From an air base in China New York Timesman Brooks Atkinson reported that a U.S. flyer, cutting across the mountains to Chinese Turkestan, had taken his plane up through a soupy overcast to 31,000 ft.
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Across the Himalayas, at Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan, almost in mid-Asia, the Haardt party was to be met by seven other cars which had left Peiping when the first party left Beirut.
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Over all Chinese Turkestan the Government of nationalist China has reassumed full authority.
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Your architecture must be in stone or marble, and that is precisely what you do not get in Chinese Turkestan.
From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Verne, Jules
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