Lungchow

English Etymology From en cmn - 龍州. Proper noun en Longzhou. en 1907 The Chinese Empire https://archive.org/details/chineseempiregen00broo/ London Morgan & Scott 671400 22863568M 278 https://archive.org/details/chineseempiregen00broo/page/278/ Lungchow.—Farther west than Nanning, and situated on the " Left River," a tributary of the "West River, is Lungchow, opened as a treaty port in 1887, after the Franco-Chinese War. It has not yet been connected with Hanoi by rail, as intended, on account of the reluctance of the Chinese to give the French a foothold in KWANGSI. The terminus of the railway is over the border near Lang- son, but a road connects with Lungchow, 35 miles away. en 1925 w:Harry A. Franck Roving Through Southern China https://archive.org/details/rovingthroughsou00fran/ w:The Century Company 1036948 355 https://archive.org/details/rovingthroughsou00fran/page/355/ It was my luck to reach Lungchow just a day or two after the departure of the little steamer that came up from Nanning every week or two. en 1969 King C. Chen Vietnam and China, 1938-1954 https://archive.org/details/vietnamchina19380000chen/ Princeton, N.J. w:Princeton University Press 0-691-03078-2 78-83684 1004476754 202 https://archive.org/details/vietnamchina19380000chen/page/202/ One unit was unexpectedly attacked in early December by local Chinese and Viet-Minh Communists from the north and the south at P'ingmeng and P'ingerhkuan (a Chinese border town about 40 miles from Lungchow), and was wiped out. Translations Longzhou