Word: kweiyang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...populous, prosperous Hankow will not mean the end of the war for China. Already unimportant Government bureaus have been moved upriver to Chungking and at Hankow the Foreign, Finance and Industry Ministries are poised to precede Chiang Kai-shek's military headquarters to the interior city of Kweiyang, slated as the next Chinese de facto capital...
...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...
...becoming involved with Japan or other foreign foes of China by remaining up-country with his large armies fighting Chinese Communists. His victories have been many. His executioners' swords have made thousands of Red heads roll in China's dust. Yet last week the large city of Kweiyang had only just been saved from capture by those doughty Chinese Communists, the Generals Hsiao Keh and Ho Lung. In Moscow it has not been forgotten that Communist gold, Communist military advisers and, above all, Communist propaganda in China greatly aided General Chiang to get his start; that perhaps without...
After killing 7,000 Communists in his recent drive, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek bore the brunt of Chinese Soviet counter-attacks last week, operating from his field stronghold at Kweiyang. In press handouts the Generalissimo reported that Comrade Mao Tse-tung ("Chinese Lenin") now has no fixed headquarters or abode but moves with his Chinese Soviet Government in nomadic fashion from province to province. Moreover the Chinese Lenin was said to be so ill that he has to be carried on a stretcher...