Word: kwangsi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kweilin, the "Paris of China," was close to panic again. Panic had struck first seven weeks ago when the Japanese, poised in Hengyang, had seemed headed for the battered but glamorous Kwangsi city (pop. 100,000), whose holiday habits and friendly girls have made Kweilin's name blessed among U.S. airforcemen on pass...
...came of new activity along the Siberian border. The Japs, they calculated, intended to turn their backs on China for a while to fight another war. The Chinese also looked to the south. The Japs, they calculated, intended to stab at China's soft underside through Yunnan and Kwangsi Provinces...
Last fortnight the Japs took the last Chinese gap in one section of this route (Hangchow to Nanchang). Last week they reached for the railway between Nanchang and Chuchow, which in turn joins lines to Kwangsi, Indo-China, Siam and Malaya...
These counsels were reflected in the field. The Japanese drastically shortened lines and weakened garrisons in China, at the cost of much face and the risk of future distress. In the extreme southwest, they burned and evacuated Nanning. and. fighting off harassing Chinese troops, retired from Yunnan and Kwangsi Provinces to Hainan Island, springboard for projected drives westward to the rest of Indo-China, southward at Dutch islands, eastward at Hong Kong. The Chinese claimed that in the eleven months since the Japanese took Nanning, they had lost 74,000 men by sickness and siege. The Japanese claimed that...
Along the southern borders of Kwangsi and Yunnan Provinces 200,000 of the best troops China possesses fingered their rifles last week, awaiting a showdown in the game of pressure diplomacy across the frontier. In the last two months Japan's hell-for-leather Army mission had twice pushed negotiations with French Indo-China to a stalemate, had threateningly packed its bags, then backed down. But each time the Japanese came back with even stiffer demands. Last week they pushed hard for the most drastic terms...