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Another Red success, as spectacular as Benito Mussolini's in the '20s, was to make China's trains run on time. Travelers on the Shanghai-Canton and Hankow-Canton runs also speak of clean sleeping berths, cheap, well-cooked meals, diners decorated with portraits of Stalin. The Communists have rebuilt the main lines destroyed between 1946 and 1949, are completing such new links as the long-planned railway from Chungking to Chengtu...
Last week the Chinese Communist leaders were reacting like all Communist leaders who get frightened. From Canton in the south up through Shanghai and Tientsin in the north, Red China echoed to the crack of the executioner's bullet. It was the widest and crudest Communist purge the world had seen since Stalin's war against Russia's middle-class peasants 20 years...
...recent months, thousands of Chinese have been executed. Formosa's intelligence apparatus, which has been very reliable, disclosed many of the killings, and execution reports also peppered the pages of the official Communist press. New China News Agency (Communist) announced the execution of 96 persons in Canton and Kwangtung Province in a three-day period, some of them women students. The Wuhan radio (Communist) reported that in two weeks the Red army had "exterminated" more than 16,000 "local bandits." Foochow Reds announced the mass arrest of 247 "secret agents...
Last December the nation's chief executive body, the Federal Council, ruled that the woman suffrage question was "too premature" for national consideration. It recommended that votes for women be tried out first on the local level. Last week in the canton of Vaud, a test referendum was held. Result: Vaud men turned down woman suffrage...
Last week, Chinese Communist newspapers announced almost daily executions. Four former Nationalist officers were sentenced to death in Canton. After the failure of a peasant revolt in Shantung, nine of the ringleaders were executed. In Toy-shan, Kwangtung Province, 165 guerrillas were captured. Chinese Red army headquarters said14,781 bandits had been killed last month in the Kwangsi mountains...