Kwantien

From the Postal Romanization^[1] of Mandarin 寬甸 (Kuāndiàn).

Kwantien

1. Alternative form of Kuandian.
   • 1950 December, “List of Border Violations by US Planes”, in China Monthly Review‎^[2], sourced from Hsinhua News Agency, →OCLC, page 141, column 1:

     At 17:45 hours August 29, four American planes reconnoitred over Lakooshao of Kwantien county, then flew over Changtienhokow of Kwantien county, where they strafed civilian boats, killing one fisherman and wounding two others.

   • 1952 [1952 March 27], Ma Shih-chun, quotee, “CRIMINAL ACT AGAINST MANKIND”, in Stop U.S. Germ Warfare!, number 3, Peking: The Chinese People's Committee for World Peace, →OCLC, page 23:

     I have seen the germ bomb dropped by the American imperialists over Kwantien County and have examined specimens of infected insects.

   • 1952 April 16 [1952 April 1], Chen Chi-yuan et al., “Report of the Northeast China Group of the Commission For Investigating the American Crime of Waging Bacteriological Warfare”, in Statements and Reports on the American Crime of Waging Bacteriological Warfare in China and Korea‎^[3], →OCLC, page 3, column 2:

     At 12:52 in the afternoon of March 12, eight American planes flew over from the west to the east. Han Yung-pin, owner of Tungchuho Grocery inside the south gate of Kwantien county seat testified that he saw one of these planes drop a white-coloured object which fell very slowly.

   • 1953 January 27, Lindesay Parrot, “U.S. Ace Taken in Manchuria As Sabre Crashed, Reds Say”, in The New York Times, volume CII, number 34,702, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 4:

     The Government-controlled Peiping broadcast, monitored here, said the plane was an F-86 Sabre jet, one of a group of four that flew over Kwantien County of Liaotung Province at 11:45 A. M.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kwantien.