Word: salween
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From China, with footslogging infantry troops and all the rolling forces he could spare, Chiang Kai-shek moved south to meet them. Chiang threw another force into Burma far to the east, by fierce battling kept the Jap on the west side of the turgid Salween River...
...deep gorge on the upper Salween, foot-weary, battle-battered Chinese troops were finally backed up against the bridge, retreated across it while the Japs from the other side rained down fire on them. The Chinese left their dead behind them, blew up the bridge, and crawled up the winding road to the heights on the China side. Across from them the Jap's guns bayed at the scent of tired game...
...Nipponese, apparently advancing rapidly along the Burma Road, after earlier reverses near the border, had reached the Salween River, where Chinese had blasted two suspension bridges...
Burma is a land of three rivers: the long, motherly Irrawaddy in the west ; the tired, gentle Sittang in the center; the wild Salween in the east. They rise in the northern hills, where God lives. They all run southward, through Upper Burma to the rice fields of the south, and then into the Gulf of Martaban and the Bay of Bengal...
...British and Indians concentrated on the Irrawaddy front. The Chinese took over the Sittang-and, later, when the Japs opened a flanking drive along the Salween in the east, that front as well...