Word: sinkiang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kazaks of Qomul lived their nomadic life in China's far western province of Sinkiang until the busy Russians came in 1934. The Chinese Governor had asked their help in subduing a Moslem revolt, and after the revolt they stayed. Also they sent brisk emissaries to "civilize" the Kazaks...
...want towns and farms. They liked the freedom of the plains and mountainsides and their own felt tents-the life they had lived since the times of Genghis Khan. To keep their freedom and to live as they had lived for centuries, the Kazaks decided to move out of Sinkiang...
...Sinkiang is cut and laced by towering mountains. One of the oldest traditional ways out is the flat, salty waste of the Gobi Desert. This way the great caravan of Kazaks started. There were 20,000 people, with huge herds of sheep, camels and squat Mongolian ponies...
...camera and bought a couple of tickets to Alma Ata. From there they started off on foot, across 200 miles of Central Asian mountain peaks and desert, toward China. Ten days later they staggered across the Chinese border, were fed by Chinese officers and sent on to Kuldja, in Sinkiang Province. There they celebrated the first anniversary of their escape from capitalist America...
...Baltic the Red Fleet finished intensive war games, perhaps designed to help persuade Finland to let the U. S. S. R. fortify the Åland Islands, which would weaken Germany in the Baltic. In the Far East, against Japan, Russia needs more than Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang for security against Japan; she needs a strong China, which Britain would also like to see. And across the Himalayas lies India, all but cut off from the mother country and having her troubles last week. Russia would not like Japan or Germany to take India...