Meaning of Lü-shun | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

Examples

“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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