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Kweiyang

British  
/ ˈkweɪˈjæŋ /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Guiyang

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Like their early annual drives to Changsha, the offensive aimed at Kweiyang appeared thus to have been defeated.

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The enemy had moved to within 120 miles of Kweiyang, an air base city near the eastern end of the Burma Road.

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With dismaying speed the Japanese were surging toward Kweiyang, all-important rail terminus and highway junction linking China's capital to the southwest.

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All trucks rolling into Kweiyang, the main transport center in southwest China, were ordered to stop moving until converted to charcoal burning.

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Grim, cold, filthy Kweiyang, swarming with abjectly miserable refugees, was reprieved, and China with it.

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