Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese Army talked of moving into the Japanese path at Canton...
Early this week a fleet of 15 Japanese transports steamed out of the Canton River in South China, headed south...
...fourth year of war sputtered out in fitful silence, the four million soldiers stretched from Mongolia to Canton kept their eyes fixed on the silent, inactive, parallel lines of hate. But far back of either side of the lines the painful activities of the struggle dragged along unabated on the weary home fronts...
...Hsinking in Manchukuo; to the south they reach the tiny islands of Palau, 500 miles closer to the U.S. than the Philippines, continue on to Portuguese Timor in the East Indies; to the west they roar to Shanghai, other Chinese cities; to the southwest they fly over Formosa to Canton, then over French Indo-China to Bangkok in pro-Japanese Thailand. The eastern and western arms of their airlines form a giant horseshoe around the Philippines (see map). To gain these far-flung routes Japan used fat subsidies, even bullets. They shot down at least two defenseless, passenger-carrying planes...
...staking them against the game farther south. Shanghai reported that Japan was already withdrawing troops from inner China toward the seacoast. Shanghai prophets predicted that Japan would concentrate its forces in North China and along a southward line following the rail way from Nanking to Shanghai, Hangchow and Canton - thus controlling China's great seaport sources of trade and revenue...