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Drab Living. The six revolutionary universities are at Peking, Nanking, Sian, Canton, Hankow and Kweiyang. Foremost among them is the North China Revolutionary University, located in an army barracks in Peking's western suburb. Last week I talked to a recent graduate who had just made his escape into Hong Kong...
...secretary in the department of industry of the South-Central Military Administrative Area, with headquarters in Hankow, Chen was sent last winter to Tientsin with his boss on a mission to purchase military supplies. When the boss sneaked off for a trip to his home town, Chen carried on with the mission's official seal and $87,000 funds. He moved into an expensive hotel, bought steel materials from merchants who made fine profits, and equally fine kickbacks to Chen. He lived big at expensive restaurants, escorted beautifully dressed' girls to the fanciest spots, spent...
...tung & Co. suffered a rebuff. British authorities in Hong Kong had seized an oil tanker whose ownership was in dispute between Red China and the Nationalists. In retaliation, Peking confiscated the property of the British Shell Company of China (which has installations in Shanghai, Canton, Tientsin, Amoy & Hankow). In London, a Tory bigwig huffed: "Palmerston would have sent a gunboat at once." But a Labor policymaker tut-tutted: "We must not be the ones to set the east aflame-or to turn that heat against the west. Patience, unending patience...
Another military feature in China is the comparative lack of installations which are worth bombing. South and Central China where most of the people live is served by a network of waterways which make railroads largely unnecessary. The significant thing about the Canton-Hankow line is not that a single track connects these tow major centers but that a single track is all they need between them in "normal" times...
...production pace set up by himself and his brigade, and has suffered a complete mental collapse. He became a nervous wreck, and had to be taken to a sanatorium in Manchuria last August. This was unwittingly slipped through a report in a Communist newspaper, the Yangtse Daily, published in Hankow...