Word: corridored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could, hacked cautiously at targets of opportunity. When Thai puppets suddenly deserted the Japanese, the Chinese seized the opportunity and dashed across the Indo-China frontier to take the minor port of Moncay on the Gulf of Tonkin. The capture of this position gave Chungking the hint of a corridor...
Lord Wavell waited quietly while the endless corridor conferences proceeded. He had come far, he had no intention of jeopardizing the success of his mission now. The Congress leaders were willing to take office. The Moslem League would scarcely allow itself to be squeezed out of India's new government by the Congress ministers and nonLeague Moslems. This week, when the Simla conference convenes again, the prospects for settlement are bright...
Change of Mind. At various Allied headquarters far from Nanning, analysts are now putting together bits of information about Jap plans for the future. Well before the evacuation of Nanning and the abandonment of the corridor, the Japs started continental redispositions. Two new divisions were recently sent to Indo-China, and divisions already there have been brought up to strength with Korean and Formosan replacements. The chewed-up Burmese divisions have been pulled back to Thailand...
...with this defensive hedgehog prepared, the Japs swiftly and without warning cut it loose to shift for itself. The crack Eleventh Japanese Army, which had spearheaded the great East China drive last year, was withdrawn from the connecting corridor. Then the Japs abandoned Nanning: every strategic purpose for which the corridor had been conceived was lost...
Chinese troops entered Nanning at noon the next day, encountered no serious opposition and rapidly moved forces both north and south until they held about 100 miles of the corridor. At present they stand about 20 miles from Liuchow, which will probably fall when the Jap timetable reaches the proper...