Word: kweichow
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...probably readers of TIME-what student of world affairs is not? and through its medium they may release the girl from her life of tragedy. Any correspondence on this subject may be forwarded to me in Portales, New Mexico, or directly to the C. I. M. Hospital at Anshuen, Kweichow, South China...
...China's cultural and industrial life and millions of refugees from the devastated eastern Yangtze valley set out to a new "New China" in the hinterland which had been frantically prepared during 18 months of war. The new "New China" is composed of the provinces of Yunnan, Kwangsi, Kweichow, Szechuan, Kangsu, Sikang, Tsinghai, and the Chinese Communist-held province of Shensi-places which two years ago seemed to most Chinese as remote as Alaska is to New Yorkers...
...Hankow last week, nervous Government officials, believing the city's fall a matter of weeks, packed their families off to remote cities in southwestern China, started shipping Government archives and nonessential equipment to Chungking, officially the seat of the Government. Kweiyang, in Kweichow Province, and Yiin-nanfu, capital of Yunnan, only 400 miles from the Tibetan frontier...
...months, once in one of Chiang Kai-shek's military planes-piloted by a young Iowan-and once afoot, mere yards ahead of the Red vanguard. His latest letter, dated in January, warns me that despite all I may read, "no Communist army has yet been defeated in Kweichow:" the Reds countermarch where they please, occasionally withdrawing before the National army, never embarrassed by it. In short, the whole story of Chiang's victories is balderdash...
...unprecedented novelty to terrified Kweichow were the Generalissimo's death-hurling U. S. bombing planes. Daily Chiang totaled up the kill-500 men, 2,000, then 5,000 as the pace of slaughter quickened; finally 7,000 slaughtered Chinese butchered in four days. As the Generalissimo's high-minded Nanking government pointed out. "the number of the slain is far less than those who die in a single provincial famine. There is only one way of dealing with Communists...