erh-lien

Example Sentences

• "The new situation was recognized by the signing of a treaty of peace and friendship between China and Mongolia in 1952, and recently more tangible evidence of the new situation is to be seen in the completion of a new section of railway between Ulan Batur and Chamu Ut and the opening at the beginning of this year of a new and shorter through traffic line between Moscow and Peking via Ulan Batur, Chamu Ut, Erh Lien and Tsining."
• "Of the four new military lines (Lai-pin to Mu-nan-kuan, Li-t'ang to Erh-lien, Ying-t'an to Amoy, and Chi-ning to Erh-lien), the first two are clearly designed to provide logistic support for Chinese activities in Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam."
• "The area southwest of Erh-lien, where the border conflict was unfolding, was seen in the photographs covering the two-hundred-square-kilometer area. The analysts noted the nearly six hundred tanks of all sizes, the automatic recoilless guns, as well as the armored trucks and transport vehicles, deployed in combat-ready positions. A large-scale offensive maneuver was indicated."
• "Mr Ho also told us that Erh-lien had a population of 10,000. A fertilizer factory lay a mile to the south. The town’s water supply was pumped underground from thirty miles away, vegetables were, at least in summer, of local origin; in this arid region, with the limitless semi-desert bearing only isolated and scrawny scrub, it seemed implausible. In reply to my question, he said that Chinese only, not Mongol, was taught in the schools of Inner Mongolia."