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Word: kwangsi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaulle forces acquiring control of French Indo-China but of Japan being maneuvered out of her final chance to end the "China Affair." Her front, thinned out dangerously to cover 2,000 miles of Chinese territory, was being pushed back in the north, and southern Japanese forces, stranded in Kwangsi Province, faced methodical extermination unless aid arrived via French Indo-China. To advance farther into China was to risk having supply lines cut from the rear. Japan's only hope of quick victory lay in a flanking movement from the south that would cut off Chinese supplies and give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRENCH EMPIRE: Prize to Nippon | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...About this death business, most of my work in the past two years has been in China. I have been bombed in Chungking and in Kwangsi. Believe that I know something about it. I am no missionary. I am in business here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1940 | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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