Kalgan
Britishnoun
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At Kalgan, a commercial city on the Mongolian border, 700 lives were lost and over $1,000,000 worth of damage was done.
From Time Magazine Archive
Near Kalgan in Inner Mongolia, Chinese Communists joined up with the Red Army's Mongol units, were chagrined when they got a cold reception.
From Time Magazine Archive
For those who started from that premise, the fall of Kalgan held an unhappy political significance.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the Manchurian corridor were wiped out, Red armies would lunge southward against another Nationalist corridor, which runs along the railway westward from Tientsin through Peiping and Kalgan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kalgan is north-north-west of Peking, five days' journey.
From James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports by Gilmour, James
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