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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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But could the tide be rolled back in time to save Kweiyang, now the last forward U.S. air base?

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The drive for the final isolation of China had begun some three weeks ago, when the Japanese sent infantry and cavalry northwest on the road to Kweiyang, capital of Kweichow.

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Driven from one town to another by the Japanese invasion, the medical workers finally settled in the hills of Kweiyang, Kweichow, in thatched huts of log and plaster.

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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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