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...eastern river valleys to the western desert of Sinkiang. The deposed mayor of Shanghai was hauled through the city's streets atop a trolley car, his head bowed and a placard tied about his neck. Armed battles between pro-and anti-Maoist factions roiled the streets of Canton, and north of the city, in Kiangsi province, an army of anti-Mao peasants was reported gathering-and daring Mao's Red Guards to come and fight them. Wall posters announced the suicide of onetime Army Chief of Staff Lo Jui-ching and other officials, plus the attempted suicides...
Changed Struggle. In Canton, reported travelers arriving in nearby Hong Kong, street fighting between Red Guards and workers was waged with iron pipes, clubs and bamboo poles. Anti-Mao posters by the dozens were spotted throughout the city, and the municipal gas, water and electric plants were all but shut down by strikes. Anti-Mao leaders in the Taching oil fields stopped production and sent 10,000 of Taching's work force to Peking to foment trouble...
...proliferating posters for either news or propaganda is an art in itself. In the flourishing brush strokes of Chinese calligraphy, the tatzebao alternately denounce, cajole, exhort and praise. Last week they so covered the walls of cities, government buildings and even private huts that the citizens of Canton had to read their messages on the ground, where frustrated Red Guards laid out their latest scribblings and weighted them down with stones...
...Canton, South China's largest city, the Red Guards were reported to have seized all the city's newspapers and radio stations. In Peking itself, Correspondent Oancia* reported that one night last week gunfire chattered for more than five minutes and that the next morning the inevitable posters appeared, some of them reporting that factory workers had made trouble in the capital's western district. Across China, the Red Guards have met with increasingly stiff resistance in their drive to spread Mao's revolutionary fervor. "One learns how to make a revolution by making...
...CANTON, N.Y., December 10--If misery loves company, Johnny Unitas and the Harvard hockey team should be fast friends now. Like the Baltimore quarterback four hours before, the Crimson fumbled away a golden chance for a rare sweep of Clarkson and St. Lawrence, falling to the Larries...