Kweiyang

/ ˈkweɪˈjæŋ /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Guiyang

Example Sentences

Since Lend-Lease and the American Red Cross have taken over sending medical supplies to China the Bureau's efforts have been concentrated on three projects: > An Emergency Medical Service Training School at Tuyunkuan, Kweiyang plans to have a branch for each of the nine war areas, has five so far.

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If Kweiyang fell, the delivery end of the Burma Road would be cut, the Japs would be only 235 air miles from Chungking itself.

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By this week the Japs had snaked in past Pachai, only 65 miles east of Kweiyang, apparently had bypassed the Chinese units set out for distant defense of the city's rail and road approaches.

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Kweiyang ordered evacuation of all nonessential workers; all U.S. and British citizens were ordered to leave Kweichow province; thousands of misery-stricken refugees were pouring out of Kweichow into the Szechwan bastion beyond Chungking.

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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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