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...Shantung, boasted the New China News Agency, 200,000 common messhalls and 190,000 nurseries have freed 6,700,000 mothers for work in the fields. In Honan 7,000,000 more women are now happily working away on dams or collecting manure. Peking recently predicted that during 1958 steel production and agriculture would double. But in between the glowing reports-of efficient mass dormitories, reveille at 5 a.m., and the bracing daily militia drills ("shooting three times before every meal and three times after")-even the Communists have been dropping hints of discontent in paradise...
...Herded. Red China's first "people's commune," a single unit of 9,300 peasant families organized along military lines, was set up in Honan province six months ago without fanfare. Early in September, apparently pleased with the results of the Honan experiment, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party gave the go-ahead for a nationwide switchover to communes. By last week Peking was boasting that already 90.4% of China's 500 million peasants had been herded into 23,393 communes...
Private life, too, is not to last for long. Some communes are already planning to tear down' the houses of their members and use the salvaged brick, tile and timber to build communal barracks. In Honan two-thirds of the province's 10 million children are now being cared for in communal nurseries, and in some of the older communes "people's mess halls" have already become, the Reds boast, "almost the only place one can eat." Instead of turning to his wife when his trousers need mending, the good commune member now takes his problem...
...hillside and breaking it to pieces with hammers. Another 460 were busy constructing a dozen primitive blast furnaces and preparing a steelworks as well. 'Next year we shall make our own farm machinery,' I was told, 'buying the engine but doing the rest ourselves.' In Honan ... I saw 170 peasants busily making primitive agricultural implements-including handmade ball bearings for the wheels of their carts...
...Communists have mobilized all their resources of manpower. In Anhwei, where no rain has fallen for two months, 9,000,000 peasants, led by 3,000 Red cadres, dug emergency canals, lugged water on their backs to sprinkle 5,000,000 parched acres. In Honan, more than a million formed bucket brigades to bring water from the rivers to fields sometimes ten miles away. In Hunan, China's "rice bowl," 600,000 persons labored around the clock. In Shantung, all military units suspended drill and moved to the drought front. Thousands of schoolhouses were shut down, and in Honan...