Lao-ho-k'ou

English Etymology From en cmn 老河口, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Lao³-ho²-kʻou³.Laohekou, Wade-Giles romanization Lao-ho-k’ou, in Encyclopædia Britannica Proper noun 1 1 en Laohekou. en Hsian, Past and Present https://archive.org/details/hsiancapitalshe00hogg/ w:North-China Daily News 44478901 7 https://archive.org/details/hsiancapitalshe00hogg/page/7/ 2 There is a navigable tributary of the Han, the Chiaho (zh 甲河) which joins it at Paihohsien (zh 白河縣) where the Shensi customs barrier for the Han is situated, considerably west of Laohokʻou. on en 1968 Lyman P. Van Slyke The Chinese Communist Movement: A Report of the United States War Department, July 1945 https://archive.org/details/chinesecommunist00unit/ Stanford, CA w:Stanford University Press 68-26783 872948411 27791777M 90 https://archive.org/details/chinesecommunist00unit/page/90/ American officers have observed how Chinese troops stationed at American air bases have frequently refused to shoot at Japanese raiding planes. Asked by an American officer for the reason for this behavior, a Chinese officer at Lao-ho-k’ou air base in Hupeh answered (November 1944): “Well you see, if we shot down a Jap plane, the Japs would be angry and would take revenge and return and bomb the city and do a lot of damage.” en 1974 Timothy A. Ross Chiang Kuei https://archive.org/details/chiangkuei0000ross/ New York w:Twayne Publishers 0-8057-2214-9 74-2172 1027062802 59 https://archive.org/details/chiangkuei0000ross/page/59/ For Yen Hsüeh-mei, the Shanghai-bred nurse, life in northern Hupei must have represented a striking change. Lao-ho-k'ou was the headquarters of General Li Tsung-jen, commander of the Fifth War Area.[...]But physical privation was nearly universal and in many ways Lao-ho-k'ou was an interesting place to be. The Political Department of the Fifth War Area operated a Japanese language school there, with two hundred Chinese students in 1939. The classes were conducted by members of the Korean Volunteer unit and by Japanese prisoners of war who were sent to Lao-ho-k'ou for indoctrination. Lao-ho-k'ou was also the site of six industrial cooperatives which employed refugees in a variety of trades. en 1980 w:Sherman Cochran Big Business in China: Sino-Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarette Industry, 1890-1930 https://archive.org/details/bigbusinessinchi0000coch/ w:Harvard University Press 0-674-07262-6 0073-067X 79-23907 1058006990 4419660M 22 https://archive.org/details/bigbusinessinchi0000coch/page/22/ After two years of building up its operations in this way at two locations, Wei-hsien in Shantung province and Lao-ho-k'ou in Hupeh, BAT in 1915 procured over 2 million pounds of bright tobacco grown from American seed,' 435,000 pounds of flue-cured, almost all from Wei-hsien, and 1,750,000 of sun-cured, most of it from Lao-ho-k'ou. Translations Laohekou References