Word: sinkiang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empire's best policy is merely to keep trying to hold and digest what Japan has gained or instead make supreme efforts to chase Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, who lost his Capital Nanking four months ago, out of Hankow, and then out of Chungking, and then off into Sinkiang...
...Sinkiang!" With his Hindenburg Line cracked, and with Japanese launching 200 armed flat boats on Lake Tai to shoot up and disorganize lakeside villages, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek faced at his capital Nanking last week the virtual certainty that Japanese armies would soon sweep around south of Lake Tai, descend on him even if he could keep them from also sweeping around north of the lake and up the Yangtze River. Some 70 Japanese river gunboats were already pounding away at the Chinese boom of sunken junks which was flung across the Yangtze to block it weeks...
...sense of humor, that leading Chinese characteristic, somewhat lightened the tragedy of flight from the Capital last week. Discharged but grinning Govern-ment clerks called to each other such jokes as "See you in Sinkiang!"-thus jocularly implying that the Government may ultimately flee 2,000 miles to remote Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan...
When Soviet machinations in revolution-torn Sinkiang province brought an order to get rid of all "questionable" foreigners, the roundup produced seven individuals as mysterious as Serafimov, who traveled together until further machinations caused a further splitting up of their ranks. Serafimov's victim was a fastidious, ratlike Belgian named Goupillière. A murderer himself, Goupillière's face was "as subtle as a woman's, as ambiguous as a thief's," since it was divided by an ugly scar left when a mistress had tried to kill him with a pair of scissors...
...came last week. To Moscow the forehanded Dictator recently invited flat-faced, greasy Premier Gendun of Outer Mongolia and his Commissars, entertained them lavishly in the Kremlin, plied them with vodka, questioned them closely, made friends. Eyes on Map. Above what is effectively Chinese territory today (see map) lie Sinkiang, Outer Mongolia, inner Mongolia and Manchukuo. Sinkiang these days appears to be passing from Chinese into Soviet control. It may yet be the promised land of Chinese Communism. But its sparse population and extreme remoteness force it out of this week's picture. The same is true of nearby...