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Kweiyang

British  
/ ˈkweɪˈjæŋ /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Guiyang

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But gravest of all was the threat of the western finger, resting on Paoching and pointing across the Kweichow plateau to the Fourteenth's great central bases at Kweiyang and Kunming.

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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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Mr. Kohlberg made a trip to China last summer, checked on arrivals of medical aid at Red Cross headquarters at Kweiyang.

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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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