Jihchao

Definitions

Noun. [B1]

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 not to accede unendingly to the aggressive demands of the Germans’; and the Germans had withdrawn.”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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