Jehol
Americannoun
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a region and former province in northeastern China: incorporated into Manchukuo by the Japanese 1932–45. 74,297 sq. mi. (192,429 sq. km).
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former name of Chengde.
noun
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a former province of NE China, north of the Great Wall: divided among Hebei, Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia in 1956. Area: 192 380 sq km (74 278 sq miles)
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a region of NE China, in Hebei and Liaoning provinces: mountainous
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On no issue was T.V. more outspoken than Japanese aggression in Manchuria and Jehol.
From Time Magazine Archive
Foreign correspondents expected this move to be more effective in blasting the prestige of Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek than in driving Japan from Jehol.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another Government army closed in on Kalgan from Jehol.
From Time Magazine Archive
Foreign military attaches were frankly amazed when the middle Japanese spearhead plunged with seeming ease into Chaoyang, the second largest Jehol city, supposed to have been defended by large Chinese forces guarding an "impregnable pass."
From Time Magazine Archive
Keen Lung happened to be residing at his summer palace at Jehol beyond the Wall, but he sent peremptory instructions that there was to be no delay in sending the English up to Pekin.
From China by Demetrius Charles Boulger
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