chahar

Example Sentences

• "Chiang’s foreign office in Nanking denied that there were any provincial troops in the disputed area; there were only a few militia. At any rate, Nanking replied, the territory in question was part of the Kuyuan district, and Kuyuan was in Chahar, and Chahar was Chinese territory, so what were the Japanese complaining about?"
• "The border-area government resembled a provincial administration. It was headed by a six-man Border Region Administrative Committee with Sung Shao-wen as Chairman and Hu Jen-k'uei as Vice-Chairman. The other four committeemen were Nieh Jung-chen, Communist Party representative and local military commander; Liu Tien-chi, representative of the Kuomintang; Chang Su, regional representative for Chahar; and Sun Chih-yuan, regional representative for Hopei."
• "The critical state of military affairs has increased the importance of Peiping as the government’s headquarters in north China. Not long ago, General Fu Tso-yi was appointed Commander of a new North China Communist Suppression Headquarters, with its center here, to direct and control all military operations in the provinces of Jehol, Chahar, Suiyuan, Hopeh, and part of Shansi."
• "In the summer of 1935 came another humiliation. The Ho-Umetsu “agreement” was stuffed down the throat of supine China. By its terms, Central Government troops were expelled from the provinces of Hebei and Chahar. No units of China’s ruling party, the Guomindang, could function in these provinces—not even in the great cities of Beiping and Tianjin."