Kweilin

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.

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.

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.

Some 100 people jointed^([sic – meaning joined]) in a pitched battle recently at the railway station in Kweilin, Kwangsi, carrying iron rods or bicycle chains as weapons.

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.

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.