Word: kweichow
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...brought new suffering to ill-clad, undernourished lao ping (China's G.I. Joe). But it also gave China's armies a priceless gift of time. The enemy was trying to stabilize his positions after being driven back down the Kweiyang-Liuchow road and railway, clear out of Kweichow Province. At week's end, the two armies were digging into the frozen ground around Hochih...
...this week the reason why the Japs had fallen back from the escarpments of Kweichow was clear. It was not the desperate resistance of the Chinese; it was because the Japs had run out of supplies. They had turned back to get something...
Like their early annual drives to Changsha, the offensive aimed at Kweiyang appeared thus to have been defeated. But like their drives to Changsha, it had achieved part of its purpose: the Japs had destroyed the Kwangsi-Kweichow railway and seized its rolling stock along the line of their advance-to foreclose a heavily mounted Chinese counteroffensive...
...retreat, light Chinese forces pressed close on the enemy's heels. The Japanese were herded out of Kweichow and the Chinese spilled back into Kwangsi Province. At week's end they had branched out across country, and were taking over Hochih, 40 miles inside Kwangsi. Behind the advancing Chinese troops, conscript and contract laborers already worked to restore recaptured airstrips for emergency use by Major General Chennault's fighters. But the nearest major air base, at Liuchow, was 95 miles beyond Hochih...
...appointment had given China and China's friends a new burst of hope. In a full summer and autumn of battle, the Chinese had been defeated at Hengyang. They had been defeated at Kweilin. The first break in their successive defeats was last week's victory in Kweichow. The road to victory was still up the sharp sides of mountains. But with T.V. at work again, there was a new faith that China would one day get over the hump...