Tungting
Americannoun
noun
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Most significant act of the hit-&-run attackers was their blasting of the dikes of Tungting Lake, flooding a huge area west of the lake.
From Time Magazine Archive
Along the meandering Yangtze, in the flatlands between Shasi and Yochow, the Japanese threw an eight-pronged drive southward toward huge, dike-bound Tungting Lake.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Tungting Lake region, badly ravaged by the floods, one in every two peasants was reported starving; in one town in Hunan, 527 out of 600 families were dependent on relief.
From Time Magazine Archive
By week's end Sun Lien-chung's drive from the south had taken Kungan, the main Japanese forward base, recovered Nanhsien and Nanhsian on the northern shore of Tungting Lake and was forging on to the river.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lying to the south of the river, is the province of Kiangsi, containing the Poyang Lake, next in size to the Tungting.
From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)
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