Meaning of Jihchao | Babel Free

Examples

“In March 1899 three Germans prospecting near Jihchao in southern Shantung were attacked by a mob and narrowly escaped with their lives.”

“The following month, after German troops had burned down two villages and had occupied the town of Jihchao in Shantung as a reprisal for the murder of three German nationals, the Governor of Shantung had been given orders ‘not to be intimidated . . . not to accede unendingly to the aggressive demands of the Germans’; and the Germans had withdrawn.”

“The first indication of the melon’s new determination to resist further slicing came in March 1899, when three Germans were attacked by villagers near the town of Jihchao in Shandong Province, close to their military base of Kiaochow. Characteristically, German troops responded by immediately invading the area, where they burned two villages and seized Jihchao.”

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