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Part of Speech: noun
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In November, 1882, there was a very serious military riot in Hankow, on the opposite side of the Yang- tsze to Wuchang. - "China and the Chinese", Herbert Allen Giles.
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Not only was Liao- yang the Russian point of concentration, but it also was a sound position both for defending Korea and covering the siege of Port Arthur. - "Some Principles of Maritime Strategy", Julian Stafford Corbett.
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In the great mouth of the river Yang- tse, distant some thirty miles to the north of Shanghai, lies the group of islands of which Ts'ung- ming and Hai- men are the largest and most important; and farther up the river, where the estuary narrows away from the sea, is situated the influential city of T'ung- chau, close to Lang- shan, or the Wolf Mountains, famous as a resort for pilgrim devotees. - "A Retrospect", James Hudson Taylor.