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...planted by Nationalist underground agents, have killed five people and wounded 40 others inside Red China. The terrorists have blown up a blockhouse, a dynamite magazine, a bank, a stretch of railway near the borders of Hong Kong and Macao. An attempt was also made to destroy a Macao-Canton ferryboat, but it was foiled when crewmen discovered a tin labeled "Apricot Kernel Cakes with Meat Filling" behind a men's room mirror. It was a TNT bomb, and the passenger suspected of planting it was executed two weeks...
...Chiu-yin, city editor, Sing Tao Evening News, Hong Kong. He studied economics at Canton University, has been on the Sing Tao staff since 1946. He plans to study history and philosophy...
Hunger was still Red China's most pressing problem. Refugees from Canton reported that 800,000 of the city's population of 2,000,000 are being transferred to farm communes in an effort to increase agricultural output. Heavy industry in Kwangtung has come to a virtual standstill as plants have either shut down or are operating with only skeleton forces...
Heavy industrial output, down 35% in 1961, is still plummeting. Reason given in every case: "shortage of raw materials." Beggars are commonplace in Canton, and prostitutes, supposedly "reformed" by the government, are back in business. Black-marketing flourishes, and corruption among Communist cadres is rampant...
...GUTIERREZ Canton, Ohio...