Word: calking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaks and Arms. Other recent Japanese campaigns in China have had similar objectives. The occupation of Kwangchowan, a French-leased area, gave the Japanese a chance to build airfields to offset U.S.-operated fields in South China, but its main point was to calk the greatest chink in the South China blockade. In Shantung Province, one of the areas occupied by the invader in the first year of the war, the Japanese have in the past two months car ried on a campaign against Chinese guer rilla forces who had assisted in smuggling. Operations against the Chinese border from Burma...