Lanchow
Britishnoun
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A mile above sea level, Lanchow lies in a cup surrounded by mountains at the point where the Yellow River intercepts the old desert route from Turkestan to Peking.
From Time Magazine Archive
He left his sg-year-old son, General Ma Chi-yuan, in command of the defense of Lanchow.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were somewhere beneath it when its young, impulsive pilot tried to buck a blinding storm in the wild ranges between Hami and Lanchow.
From Time Magazine Archive
So important a military secret has Lanchow become in the scheme of war that in two years only three trusted Occidental newspapermen have been allowed to visit it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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