Word: sinkiang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sinkiang. It's a very hard trip-even dangerous. And when you come back, no one will believe what you find there...
...There are many aspects of tracking down the news, and the Sinkiang story - geographically, at any rate - was one of the tougher ones. It was as if our Rome correspondent had heard vaguely about a troubled situation, not within biking distance of Rome but 2,000 miles away, and, after getting there, found that he not only had to wrestle with a language (Uighur) in which even the U.S. State Department has no expert but also had to gather correct information about an overall situation with which neither he nor almost anyone else was familiar...
...never flown this remote, desolate route, tricky with fierce dust storms, violent thermal drafts rising from the upland deserts, snow-toothed mountains that bite more than 20,000 feet into the sky. He got us through with nothing worse than airsickness to Tihua, dusty, dirty, crossroads capital of Sinkiang, where the racial blood of all Central Asia mingles in the faces on the street. We planned to fly back with our pilot but, luckily, chance intervened...
...Tihua, Gruin and Colin-Ho set about interviewing everybody who could help unravel the Sinkiang story. Most of their informants were as effusively evasive as the stocky Russian manager of Tihua's Sino-Soviet airport who said he wanted no pictures taken because "the airport is in bad repair and it would give a bad impression if printed in the magazine." After considerable argument Gruin was allowed to take two shots, carefully outlined before snapping. Then, for a firsthand view of the area where Chinese and Mongolian troops had been having a border fracas, they trucked across the gravel...
...branch of their Foreign Trade Commissariat, the Sino-Soviet Aviation Corp., a branch of the Sino-Soviet Cultural Association, a school and a hospital. On Sundays, most of Tihua's Russians (more than 200 in all) go up the Urumchi River for an isolated picnic. In northwest Sinkiang and the western outpost of Kashgar there are even more Russians. Sinkiang workmen are mining valuable wolfram for them at Fuwen; others are tapping the rich oil pools at Wusu...