Usage examples of "peiping".
With the rail routes from Peiping blocked by the battle front, the journey now took eight days, first by sea around the Shantung peninsula, then via the Lunghai line to Chengchow, then southbound to Hankow.
To underscore her defiance and the futility of international words without teeth, Japanese troops took over Jehol, another province north of the Wall, and then crossed over into Hopei, where they established a demilitarized zone 30 to 40 miles wide between Peiping and Tientsin into which Chinese troops could not enter without Japanese consent.
Stilwell, promoted to full colonel, came back to Peiping on July 7, 1935, the future of China, the expansion of Japan, the implications for the United States, were spread before him to study as military observer.
Owning property in the Legation Quarter of Peiping, comfortable in their clubs and summer homes in the Western Hills, the foreign missions preferred to stay in the Imperial City where life was still pleasant even as its end visibly approached.
Among residents of Peiping it was an article of faith that the farther south, the worse the inhabitants.
The railway was the only remaining access to Peiping not under Japanese control and Lukouchiao was a key junction where a shuttle connected with the railway to Tientsin.
Government had made no plan or preparations for the event of national resistance and the Japanese took over control of Peiping within the week.
Congregationalist minister, Carlson had begun his military career as an enlisted man, and served with the Marines in China under General Smedley Butler in 1927-29, and again at Shanghai and Peiping in 1933-35 when he undertook the study of the language.
Stilwell returned there in August from Peiping where he had decided on his own authority to spend the summer with his family.
By now he had been authorized to return to Peiping preparatory to the end of his tour in May and so his stay in Chungking was short, lasting only from December 19 to 31.
Peiping announces that the three strange globes from the moon, which destroyed three scout planes with their green rays last night and then disappeared, arrived in Peiping this morning.
Then he opened one of the diamond-shaped doors, and stepped out onto the bridge-instantly recognizing a section of Peiping with which he was familiar.
Need I mention the recent Radio Peiping call for the formation of internal revolutionary fronts in Thailand, Malaysia, and a couple of other countries?
In the meantime, Radio Peiping was already sending out messages in Tibetan promising that Tibet would soon be freed.
Missions were appointed by the government to visit Peiping, Delhi, Washington, and London.