Usage examples of "lanchow".
Stilwell was about to leave for the Anhwei front to observe the 13th Army under General Tang En-po, he was balked by the War Department which ordered him to go to Lanchow instead to report on Russian aid reaching China.
Stilwell was not told this and indeed the whole Lanchow affair, which brought his resentment to a peak, could have been mitigated, like the rest of his troubles with MID, by a simple personal communication.
He passed his fifty-fifth birthday en route to Lanchow feeling that, in view of his relations with the War Department, his career henceforward held little promise.
Russian air base at Lanchow and bring back evidence to show how far Russia was concerned to help China.
Making his way by train as far as Sian where he visited 8th Route Army headquarters, and from there to Lanchow by bus and truck, he hunted down clues, bribed employees of the Russian guest house for figures on arrivals, questioned sentries, police, bus drivers, innkeepers, servants, the Governor of Kansu and his secretaries, missionaries at Sian, a Tibetan interpreter, an automobile dealer, Chinese officers, student aviators and local Mongols.
Stilwell would have been accompanying had he not been ordered to Lanchow, played this role.
Russians at Lanchow he had not succeeded in the short time since 1937 in training a group of Chinese combat pilots numerous or effective enough to dispute the skies with the enemy as the RAF was doing over England.
January to June reports from American foreign service officers in posts from Kunming and Kweilin to Sian and Lanchow were filled with mounting evidence of deterioration and dissidence.
Therefore to convert Lanchow cash into Tientsin cash you must divide the Lanchow cash by 3, count 975 as 1000, and consider this equal to a certain percentage of a theoretical amount of silver known as a tael, which is always varying of itself as well as by the fluctuations in the market value of silver, and which is not alike in any two places, and may widely vary in different portions of the same place.