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...than in New York. Canton has a few, but Canton is not as well administered and was liberated later than Peking. During last year's competition to see which city is best administered, Peking received, I think, five red stars. Tientsin also received five stars, but Canton received none. Hankow, a little worse than Canton, received the black star. About the worker's attitude, on the train leaving Canton we tried to tip some of the trainmen because they were exceptionally courteous and helpful to us--but when we offered a tip we were not only refused, but told...
...China mainland in 1949, Mao Tse-tung's regime promised moderation, tolerance and forgiveness. Last week tolerance was lost in the mounting clamor of a great Red terror. Mao Tse-tung's regime announced the execution of 120 "counterrevolutionaries" at Canton, 56 at Swatow, 89 at Hankow, 28 at Kweilin. In scenes reminiscent of the tumbril-and-guillotine days of the French Revolution, the Communists turned the spectacle of death into public carnivals, with music and dances...
Another Red success, as spectacular as Benito Mussolini's in the '20s, was to make China's trains run on time. Travelers on the Shanghai-Canton and Hankow-Canton runs also speak of clean sleeping berths, cheap, well-cooked meals, diners decorated with portraits of Stalin. The Communists have rebuilt the main lines destroyed between 1946 and 1949, are completing such new links as the long-planned railway from Chungking to Chengtu...
...tall buildings in Canton. Merchants were told to ship inflammable goods inland. Industrial machinery and commodities were also being transferred. Plans for dispersal of the city's 1,000,000 population were reported. The families of Red officials were trekking to Kukong, 150 miles up the Canton-Hankow railway...
...Much Success. Since the Generalissimo appointed him governor last December, Wu has ably wielded the broom of reform. He has managed to halt inflation by curbs on the amount of money in circulation. Wu has also managed to repeat his feat of Hankow: he has balanced Formosa's budget-not without drastic forced loans and capital levies...