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  • (Laughter) The financial situation in Chefoo, China, is very perilous.

    The Challenge of International Relations to North America 1925

  • A similar incident occurred at Chefoo, a port on the northern coast of the province of Shantung.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • According to them, there was a great deal of traffic between the Chinese Communists in Chefoo and the Russians in Dairen as well as between the members of the CCP in Chefoo and those in Hulutao and Yingkow.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • General Chu announced that if American forces disembarked at Chefoo, the Communist Eighth Route Army would not understand, since there were no Japanese nearby and they were in control of the area.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • But while Chiang was issuing his final statement to the Assembly—a speech involving a cease-fire “except to defend against attack” and negotiations with the Communists for unconditional cessation of hostilities—his armies were trying to capture the port of Chefoo.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • Although the American ships were already in the harbor at Chefoo, their commanders recommended that the landing be aborted.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • Raised largely by his mother in China, where his father held a diplomatic post, he began his schooling in Chefoo in Shantung Province.

    A Man Who Knew Everyone 2008

  • Ma-Na-Si, a boarder in the mission school at Chefoo, went home for the holidays.

    The Kneeling Christian Unknown Christian 1971

  • Chefoo is that it is the place of all others on the station to send emaciated ships 'companies to regain their stamina.

    In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

  • Meanwhile, whilst the decorations are pushing ahead, I must pause to notice the naval regatta of the 23rd, and especially the race which came about between our cutter and a similar boat of the "Lily," which it will be remembered we beat at Chefoo recently; but so confident were the "Lily's" that our victory on that occasion was the result of a "fluke," that they challenged us again to pull for sixty dollars.

    In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

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