Word: anhwei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inland waterways in Hupeh, winding through rivers and lakes, famous for their river pirates, were transformed by war into one of China's most important smuggling networks. Cloth, medicine, cigarets and cotton pour through these channels from provinces as far distant as Chekiang, Anhwei, Kiangsu. Now Japan's troops straddle these inland waterways. To cut traffic entirely, they have to advance only 20 miles more, to Santouping's fortifications...
CHUNGKING--Chinese troops, in their greatest victory of the past six months, have completely upset the enemy campaign in the Honan-Anhwei-Hupeh border triangle of central China after killing more than 3,000 Japanese, it was announced tonight...