Meaning of Manchouli | Babel Free

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Dated form of Manzhouli.

alt-of, dated

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“Meanwhile Chiang’s most prominent military advisers continued to be the Germans. The German plans for a transcontinental Germany-Russia-China air service (via Sinkiang) through the Eurasia Company set⟳ up in 1930 (of which the shareholders were the Chinese Government and the Deutsche Lufthansa A.G.) failed, and the Eurasia Company confined its activities to China proper, although in 1931 mails from Shanghai were delivered by plane to Manchouli to connect⟳ with the Trans-Siberian.”

“From the time the Allies invited them into Harbin (the end⟳ of December, 1917), Chinese troops had been moving rapidly along the Chinese Eastern Railway to take⟳ over garrison duties throughout the zone.⁹ According to Semenov, it was only through a combination of force⟳ and trickery that he was able to keep⟳ Hailar and Manchouli out of their hands.¹⁰”

“The ODVA also struck in the west. There, the Russians had organized a special task force⟳ comprising 6,000 infantry and 1,600 cavalry, with modest support⟳ in the form⟳ of artillery, tanks, and aircraft. On November 17, the Soviet forces surrounded the frontier post⟳ of Manchouli and its garrison, while other troops farther east assaulted the Chinese position at Chalainor, taking that town November 18. Manchouli fell to the Soviet attack on November 20.”

“Yet again the phrase does not do justice to the nail-biting 750-mile journey through what is left of the ramparts put⟳ up by Genghis Khan, mountain ranges, arid plains, alien landscapes and alien people, stopping at little wooden stations identical to those the length and breadth of Russia but with tongue-twisting Chinese names like⟳ Manchouli, Pokotu and Tsitsihar.”

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