Paoting
Britishnoun
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Thus, if the Paoting farmers keep up their twice-a-week raids, they will cost the Japanese half a million yen a year.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the early years of the republic, Paoting Military Academy turned out eight classes of men who helped implement the revolution of Sun Yat-sen and who now command about one-third of China's 300-odd divisions.
From Time Magazine Archive
He attended the Paoting Military Academy, met Chiang Kai-shek in the early '203 and has been a trusted lieutenant and devoted friend ever since.
From Time Magazine Archive
As if to support Hua's picture of clear and present domestic dangers, official Chinese radio broadcasts reported "great chaos" in Paoting, an important railway and textile center only 90 miles south of Peking.
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Japanese airmen, still looking for these Chinese forces last week, flew 85 miles down the railway up which the Chinese were supposed to be coming and impudently bombed the important city of Paoting.
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