Word: kwangsi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists bore down on the Nationalist shadow capital of Chungking, Acting President Li Tsung-jen took off on an inspection tour of his native Kwangsi province. Last week, he stepped off a plane in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, announced he would enter a hospital for treatment of an old gastric ailment. In Chungking, wily old Shansi warlord Yen Hsi-shan, Taiyuan's unsuccessful defender (TIME, June 13), stepped into Li's place. Secretaries kept Li's office open, but no one really thought that he would be back...
...best remaining Nationalist army on the mainland, some 200,000 troops under doughty General Pai Chung-hsi, who had screened Canton for six months, was retreating westward to the general's native province of Kwangsi. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had chosen Formosa for his own last stand, though there were reports that he had at last agreed to part with some silver and gold from his war chest for Chungking's defense...
Communist General Lin Piao swung his main forces southwest in pursuit of Chinese Nationalist troops withdrawing into Kwangsi Province yesterday...
...south, meanwhile, Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi continued his withdrawal down the Hankow-Canton railroad, finally set up field headquarters at Henyang, where the railroad branches out to Kweilin in Pai's home province of Kwangsi. To the east, units of one-eyed Red General Liu Po-cheng's armies moved into the towns of Nanping and Shahsien in Fukien province, putting Communist vanguards within 300 miles of the refugee Nationalist capital in Canton. In Canton, Garrison Commander Yeh Shao issued a proclamation declaring the city to be in a state of war, advised citizens who could...
...less than 100 miles north of Nanking. He even requested the return of two armies he had previously "lent" to Chiang. Rumors swept Nanking that crafty Pai was delaying river-borne supplies to the capital, that he was shifting troops southward to fortify his lao chia (old home) in Kwangsi. If true, it would be a severe blow to Nationalist hopes of holding the Yangtze...