Meaning of Lü-shun | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“An epidemic of the disease started in Lü-shun at the end⟳ of 1927 and extended to April 1928, involving 271 cases with 14 deaths (Migai, 1928).”

“On the evening of the fourteenth day (September 29), when I first landed in Hong Kong, an Englishman, the former lord commissioner of the Admiralty, Lord [Charles] Beresford, also arrived in the city; and he gave me an appointment to see⟳ him. [During our conversation] he generously agreed to help⟳ save⟳ the emperor. I pointed out that the Russians had a garrison of twenty thousand men at Lü-shun and that it might not be advisable for England to take⟳ action.”

“Soviet resistance to returning the railway, which cut⟳ through the heart of Manchuria, or the naval base⟳ at Lü-shun (Port Arthur) and the harbor city of Ta-lien (Dairen or Dalny)—all of which the Soviet Union had regained after Japan's defeat⟳ in World War II—continued for a quarter of a century until 1953-55, despite heated Chinese demands for their immediate restitution.”

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