Word: anhwei
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...Communists have mobilized all their resources of manpower. In Anhwei, where no rain has fallen for two months, 9,000,000 peasants, led by 3,000 Red cadres, dug emergency canals, lugged water on their backs to sprinkle 5,000,000 parched acres. In Honan, more than a million formed bucket brigades to bring water from the rivers to fields sometimes ten miles away. In Hunan, China's "rice bowl," 600,000 persons labored around the clock. In Shantung, all military units suspended drill and moved to the drought front. Thousands of schoolhouses were shut down, and in Honan...
Even the millions of Chinese who cannot read know the story these picture words tell when they see them written against a neighbor's name. Five years ago in the province of Anhwei, the Chinese Communists deprived the landlords of existence and redistributed the land among the peasants. Some time ago, as part of a plan to speed socialization, the Communists began reorganizing the Anhwei farmlands into cooperatives. In the village of Liuchiatsun a peasant named Liu resented the seizure of his tiny (three-acre) farm and carelessly talked of resisting. The Communists' answer was quick, final...
...China's alluvial Yangtze plains, recent Communist newspapers describe how peasants are selling farm implements and animals, in Anhwei province even their own children, in exchange for a decent bite to eat. In the Tungting Lake region, badly ravaged by the floods, one in every two peasants was reported starving; in one town in Hunan, 527 out of 600 families were dependent on relief. Kiangsi daily admitted food riots in Sunwu county, where 20 peasants were killed or wounded when they tried to storm Communist storage granaries. The peasant resentment was so bad, People's Daily admitted, that...
When China was battling Japanese and Communists in the brave years before she fell into Communist slavery, General Wei Li-huang was one of the Nationalists' most glittering military figures. Born in Anhwei 59 years ago, stocky, pipe-smoking Wei Li-huang rose from the ranks to hold such resounding titles as commander in chief of the First War Zone, commander in chief of the Chinese Expedition to Burma, and finally commander in chief of the Chinese Army. He became a full general, and a member of the Kuomintang's powerful Central Executive Committee. Chiang Kai-shek...
...machinery works at Anhwei promised a big expansion program, despite the fact that the existing plant had twice been flooded and was practically useless...