Kwangchowan

/ ˈkwæŋˈtʃaʊˈwɑːn /

noun

1. a territory of SE China, in SW Kwantung province: leased to France as part of French Indochina from 1898 to 1945. Area: 842 sq km (325 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Except for garrisons at Canton and Kwangchowan.

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Transports by the dozen gathered off Japanese concentration points at Hainan island, Haiphong, Kwangchowan.

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The occupation of Kwangchowan, a French-leased area, gave the Japanese a chance to build airfields to offset U.S.-operated fields in South China, but its main point was to calk the greatest chink in the South China blockade.

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Japanese closed the French-leased South China port of Kwangchowan, 150 miles from Indo-China.

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