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...south, major fighting has been reported in Szechwan, Honan and Kwangsi provinces, and travelers returning from the Canton Trade Fair-which ended last week-say that there is fear of an invasion of the city by armies of dissident Red Guards. In Fukien, where there has been trouble in the past, five Peking officials sent to investigate new violence were kidnaped by local Red Guards. Newspapers in Anhwei report that Central Committee directives are being derided and that Mao supporters are under open attack. In Shantung, according to Peking radio, "people claiming to be revolutionaries" are stirring up "trouble...
Only Resting? Ironically, the most wanted leader of the terrorists is a Communist who was once awarded the Order of the British Empire. He is a Malay-born Chinese named Chin Peng. Son of a bicycle dealer who emigrated from China's Fukien province, Chin, 44, made the Crown's honors list for guerrilla resistance against the Japanese in World War II, led the Malay contingent in London's victory parade. But in 1948 he launched Malaya's Red "war of liberation" against Britain's colonial regime, which cost nearly 18,000 dead and required...
...such preparations would soon be put to use. Both Red China and North Viet Nam continued to bellow against the U.S. retaliation, and Peking announced that more than 20 million people on the mainland had taken part in angry demonstrations against the U.S. Breathlessly, the Reds disclosed that in Fukien province alone 150,000 Chinese militiamen were limbering up with grenade-tossing exercises, target practice and river-crossing drills-and produced carefully posed pictures to prove it. But in terms of actual military support to North Viet Nam, Peking provided only 15 to 20 obsolescent...
...grasses and trees are all soldiers" is an old Chinese proverb denoting a state of extreme nervousness and a feeling that one is surrounded by enemies. Last week Red China was using this hemmed-in feeling to justify its troop buildup in Fukien province across from the Nationalist-held offshore islands of Matsu and Quemoy. The Reds have had heavy troop concentrations along the Formosa Strait for years, but by last week they had added an estimated 100,000 men, raising the total to about 450,000. Belligerently, Red China claimed that Chiang Kai-shek was "preparing for an invasion...
...Real Troubles. Actually, the whole affair was a bit of a grass menace on all sides. The Fukien buildup was real enough, but for the Kennedy Administration, which first leaked the reports about it to the press, it also provided a frontpage diversion from the troubled economy. More significantly, on Red China's part, talk of an unlikely invasion from Formosa was a big smoke screen that diverted the masses from China's domestic troubles and upheavals. For Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa, amphibious exercises by Nationalist troops and the calling up of reservists kept green his often...