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Suiyüan

British  
/ ˈswiːˈyɑːn /

noun

  1. a former province in N China: now part of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region

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A police officer in Suiyuan County confirmed the authenticity of the media reports to NBC News.

From MSNBC

No correspondent was reported within hundreds of miles of this most vital offensive, watched with cat-like concern by Tokyo, but the Japanese claimed they had broken through Chinese defenses on the frontier of Suiyuan, seized strategic rail junctions.

From Time Magazine Archive

From Kalgan he made his way to Tatung, visited the bat-haunted Imperial Cave Temples of the Wei Dynasty, thence to Saratsi in Suiyuan District to inspect China's greatest irrigation project, a dam being built under the supervision of O. J. Todd, U. S. engineer, to harness the mighty yellow River, "China's Sorrow," and attempt to control its perennial floods.

From Time Magazine Archive

Japanese, pursuing their second objective of cutting off China from receiving Soviet supplies via Outer and Inner Mongolia, captured last week Kweisui, the capital of Suiyuan.

From Time Magazine Archive

This province is the third in Inner Mongolia, Japan having taken Jehol in 1933 and northern Chahar in 1935, but although Suiyuan's capital fell last week the entire province was by no means conquered, the Soviet link not cut.

From Time Magazine Archive