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Lanchow

British  
/ ˈlænˈtʃaʊ /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Lanzhou

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But at Lanchow itself, with its vital Nationalist air terminus and motor road junctions, the Communists expected stiff resistance.

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He left his sg-year-old son, General Ma Chi-yuan, in command of the defense of Lanchow.

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We were somewhere beneath it when its young, impulsive pilot tried to buck a blinding storm in the wild ranges between Hami and Lanchow.

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That fall they completed a 216-mile roller coaster across 1,000 bridges and viaducts from Tienshui, terminus of the old main line from the coast, to Lanchow, the heart of the "New Northwest."

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Mr. Colquhoun, who is a high authority, has no doubt that, as Richthofen anticipated years ago, China will eventually be directly connected with Europe via Hami, Lanchow and Sian.

From China by Demetrius Charles Boulger

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