Heze

Proper noun

Heze

1. A prefecture-level city of Shandong, China.
   • The army under Prince Sengalintsin, a famous Manchu general, was surrounded at Hotse in southwestern Shantung, and its supplies were cut off.[1959 August, “Nien Movement and National Minority Risings”, in Tung Chi-ming [董集明], editor, An Outline History of China [簡明中国历史] (China Knowledge Series), Second edition, Peking: Foreign Languages...
   • The official New China News Agency said that five hours after the quake 30 people in Heze and Dongming Counties in Shandong had been reported dead. Several thousand houses in Heze County were destroyed, the agency said.
   • Authorities in Heze County, on the border between Anhui and Shandong Provinces, said that casualty reports were sketchy but that one death and up to 100 injuries had been recorded in their area.
   • The quake jolted most residents from their beds. Nearly everyone was asleep, said Li Jimin, a government official in Heze, 400 miles south of Peking.1983 November 8, “QUAKE IN CHINA KILLS AT LEAST 30”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, page A6