Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hong Kong these days, markets and bazaars are flooded with produce from Red China-white rice and spiced beef, ham from Yunnan, berries from Ningpo, litchi from Canton and dried melons from faraway Sinkiang. It might seem a land of plenty that can afford to export so many delicacies. But in Hong Kong one day last week, reported TIME Correspondent Val Chu, a four-year-old girl refugee from Red China sat down with her relatives for a meal of pork and rice. She picked up a piece of pork, licked it, put it down and began shoveling mouthfuls...
...south China, Canton's Nam Fong daily reported famine in 50 out of 98 counties in Kwangtung, 20 out of 74 in neighboring Kwangsi, where some of the people were down to eating tree bark, grass and domestic pets. In Canton, 4,000 peasants were arrested for petty thefts like grabbing grocery parcels from pedestrians; the city's milk powder for babies was considered so poor and unusable that human milk was getting onto the market...
During the civil war against the Reds, Wei was made chief of the anti-Communist campaign in nine Manchurian provinces. At this point something snapped in General Wei's mind. Of his own accord, he abandoned his garrison in hard-pressed Mukden and fled to Canton, under an assumed name, with his second wife. The furious and disillusioned Gimo had him arrested and sent to Nanking to face charges. For a while, Wei dropped out of sight, but after the fall of Nanking in the last days of Chiang's mainland rule, Wei turned up in Hong Kong...
...stucco house. Whatever Mr. Tao said must have been extremely persuasive. Recently the servants overheard a fierce argument between Wei and his anti-Communist son and daughter. Shortly after, Wei and his wife left by automobile, preceded by a dozen pieces of luggage. They changed to a Canton-bound train, and vanished behind the Bamboo Curtain...
...glorious achievements and denouncing Chiang Kaishek. Wrote Wei: "You have all seen that during the Korean war the powerful military might of our motherland forced the U.S. to a ceasefire. Taiwan [Formosa] will eventually be liberated." At last Communist report, Wei and his wife, seeing the sights of Canton, were "very lighthearted and thrilled...