Meaning of I-lan | Babel Free

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“Although Taiwan has the advantages of abundant rains and a long growing season, which make it possible in much of the cultivated area to grow two and even three crops a year on the same plot, there are handicaps. Surface configuration and poor soils have limited the arable area to the western plains, the T'ai-tung Valley, and the I-lan Plain-or only some 24 per cent of the land surface in all.”

“Moreover, the anatomical and biophysical studies described in this paper have not only indicated the snail first described as "Tricula" to be a subspecies of Oncomelania hupensis, but to be most closely related to O. h. formosana, and, in particular, to a population of that subspecies from I-lan county, also located in the northern tip of Taiwan.”

“Elsewhere, on the east coast an auxiliary force composed of Ōsaka Fourth Division reserves staged landings in the I-lan district on June 21, and in only two days' time had peacefully entered the main towns of Lo-tung and I-lan in that area.”

“I was told that the security agencies had determined that in the event of a public disturbance of any kind, three men would be destroyed at once. They were Henry Kao, the present mayor of Taipei, Kuo Yu-shin, an outspoken non-K.M.T. member of the Provincial Assembly elected by a solid constituency in I-lan, and me. The three of us were referred to in security documents by a coded sign, three concentric circles.”

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