AtDTDA (43) Tristero's Empire 968

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

          Before setting off down the shore of the lake, as if they 
          were only out here on holiday, they bought postal cards 
          illustrated with scenes of the War, and stamps each 
          printed in two or three languages, not to mention 
          Turkish and Cyrillc alphabets, with provisional overprints 
          in these as well as Roman face. Some of the photographs 
          showed terrible scenes of slaughter and mutilation, 
          reproduced not in simple black and white but varying 
          shades of green, a quite fluorescent green as a matter 
          of fact---shell craters, limbless men at field hospitals, 
          gigantic cannons, aeroplanes flying in formation. . . .

http://www.a2zcds.com/SiteImages/Remembering_World_War_I_1.jpg
http://www.ffejournal.com/images/1118146776-moeller.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/4hgcz9
http://www.linns.com/howto/refresher/cinderellas_20030113/refreshercourse.asp?uID=
http://www.britishbattles.com/zulu-war/isandlwana/1st-slaughter.jpg

          They posted them, in the sure and certain hope of none arriving, 
          to Yz-les Bains, Chunxton Crescent, Gabrovo Slim and Zhivka, 
          Frank and Mayva in the U.S.A., Kit Traverse and Auberon 
          Halfcourt, Hotel Tarim, Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan.
          AtD, 968

      Xinjiang (Uyghur:. . . .Postal map spelling: Sinkiang) is an 
      autonomous region (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) of the 
      People's Republic of China. It is a large, sparsely populated area 
      (spanning over 1.6 million sq. km) which takes up about one sixth 
      of the country's territory. Xinjiang borders the Tibet Autonomous 
      Region to the south and Qinghai and Gansu provinces to the 
      southeast, Mongolia to the east, Russia to the north, and Kazakhstan, 
      Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and the Pakistan- and India-
      controlled parts of Kashmir to the west. It administers most of 
      Aksai Chin, which India claims sovereignty over.

      "Xinjiang" or "Ice Jecen" in Manchu, literally means "New Frontier", 
      a name given during the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China.[1] It is 
      home to a number of Turkic ethnic groups, the largest of which 
      are the Uyghurs. The region is often referred to in older English 
      references (in particular past reference works) as Chinese 
      Turkestan[2], sometimes East Turkestan or Uyghuristan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang