Kweilin

English Etymology From the en zh-postal - of en cmn 桂林 Guìlín. Pronunciation gwāʹlǐnʹ Proper noun en dated en Guilin. en https://archive.org/details/menofmaryknoll00kell/mode/2up 1944 Men of Maryknoll James Keller; Meyer Berger Charles Scribner's Sons New York 153–154 https://archive.org/details/menofmaryknoll00kell/page/152/mode In June, 1938, word came from Maryknoll in New York that Father Romaniello had been designated Prefect Apostolic of Kweilin. Meanwhile, Kweilin had come under Japanese aerial bombardment. Almost every day now the missioners and their charges ran at least once for the limestone caves outside the city. These caves were natural bomb shelters. Some were small and held only a few persons, others were great caverns with room for thousands. en 1957 Chiang Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) "Peaceful Coexistence" between China and Russia Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy https://archive.org/details/sovietrussiainch009229mbp/ New York Farrar, Straus and Cudahy 57010316 955026629 17 https://archive.org/details/sovietrussiainch009229mbp/page/n28/ To carry out this sinister plot Moscow sent Maring on a special trip to see Dr. Sun in Kweilin in 1921 with a proposal for cooperation between Kuomintang and the Russian Communist Party. en https://archive.org/details/liutsungyuan0000unse/ 1973 Life and Works w:William H. Nienhauser, Jr. Liu Tsung-yüan w:Twayne Publishers New York 39 While Liu Yü-hsi traveled southeastward overland, Liu Tsung-yüan journeyed southwestward through Yung-chou, his former place of exile, and Kuei-chou (modern Kweilin) to Liu-chou. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1978-01-08_19_2/ January 8, 1978 Friction mounts Free China Weekly XIX 2 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1978-01-08_19_2/page/n2/ Some 100 people jointedjoined in a pitched battle recently at the railway station in Kweilin, Kwangsi, carrying iron rods or bicycle chains as weapons. en 1980 Wanda Cornelius; Thayne Short Ding Hao: America's Air War in China, 1937-1945 https://archive.org/details/dinghaoamericasa00corn/ Gretna, Louisiana w:Pelican Publishing Company 0-88289-253-3 80-19337 464185410 94–95 https://archive.org/details/dinghaoamericasa00corn/page/94 In some cases, over a hundred thousand men, women, and children could be seen building five-thousand-foot solid runways for huge bombers of a type not yet built in America. These fields were being built in places east of Kunming, places with strange-sounding names like Liuchow, Kweilin, Lingling, and Hengyang, names which would all too soon become quite familiar to hundred of American airmen. en 2000 w:John C. Culver; John Hyde American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace https://archive.org/details/americandreamerl00culv/ w:W. W. Norton & Co. 0-393-04645-1 99-046444 48059998 46868M 335 https://archive.org/details/americandreamerl00culv/page/335/ He visited Chennault's frontline airfield at Kweilin (soon to be overrun by the Japanese) and met the optimistic generals who believed that China and Chiang could be saved by airpower. Further reading pn