tihwa

Example Sentences

• "(c) To complete the section from Lanchow to Tihwa of the Nanking-Sinkiang Line. This line will be divided into three sections with Suchow and Hami and the dividing stations, and the airplanes will stop at Sian and Turfan."
• "I dined with Governor Sheng in Tihwa, and the Soviet Consul-General dined with us. We toasted each other and the three countries from which we came in Russian vodka and in Chinese rice wine, and there was no hint of anything but cordial friendship between Russia and China. But the next morning I had a private breakfast, at his suggestion, with the Chinese Governor, who once was sympathetic with the Communists and of late has shifted his allegiance to the Generalissimo."
• "In August of this year I set out with two American friends from Tihwa, the provincial capital (better known perhaps by its Mongol name of Urumchi), to visit the Pei-ta-shan area, north-east of Tihwa, where there have been a number of clashes during the past two years between the Chinese and the Outer Mongolians, and also to try and locate the Kazak chieftan, Osman, who is the leading Kazak figure on the Chinese side."
• "Paxton had refused to panic. He could not have known that only two days earlier, the American mission in Nanking had cabled Washington urging that the Tihwa consulate be closed immediately in view of the rapid Communist advance into the northwest."
• "She was anticipating the upcoming truck ride to Tihwa, the capital of Sinkiang, with a certain detachment."
• "Wallace crossed into China on June 18 at Tihwa, in the western province of Sinkiang."