Lanchow
Britishnoun
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Meanwhile, along Marco Polo's ancient silk trail, a Red army pressed westward from captured Lanchow, toward the important Yumen oilfields, and the Sinkiang oases.
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Later it will stab on 400 miles further to Lanchow, remote outpost just south of the Great Wall.
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But in the last two years Lanchow has meant even more to the "Free China" of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek.
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The tidings of his son's victory reached Ma Pufang as he was settling down in his big stone headquarters outside the walls of Lanchow, gateway to the 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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