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Tsitsihar

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/ ˈtsɪtsɪˌhɑː /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Qiqihar

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Harbin and Tsitsihar had fallen last week to the Reds.

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General Ma, despite his frontal resistance and spirited efforts to turn the Japanese right flank, was forced slowly back upon Tsitsihar.

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Japanese realized that these 400 cars could bring an entire Red Army division down to Tsitsihar in North-Central Manchuria whence a Soviet attack might be launched to drive Japan out of Manchuria.

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Hispano-Suiza engine, is the same with which Coste & Bellonte broke the world's distance record last September, flying 4,877 mi. from Paris to Tsitsihar, Manchuria.

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The population of Tsitsihar, in the latitude of middle North Dakota, swells from thirty thousand to seventy thousand during September and October, when the Mongols bring in their cattle to market.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)