Word: hong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Getting hard news out of Red China is tougher than pulling dragons' teeth. Since Hong Kong's China-watchers must normally settle for secondary sources-newspapers, radio, returning visitors-they tend to keep their conclusions conservative. In recent weeks, however, the China-watchers have had some evidence that the disorders sweeping many parts of China have probably been worse than anyone outside China imagined...
...main indication of this has been the grisly flotsam of bodies floating down the flood-swollen Pearl River to Hong Kong and Macao (TIME, July 5). The number by last week had reached 66, most of them tied and mangled. Last week the China-watchers got another indication of the state of affairs in side China when a batch of newspaper photographs reached Hong Kong from Wuchow, a river-trade city in the Kwangsi region of South China. Although blurred and faded, the pictures provided the first photographic proof of the recent ravages caused by factional fighting...
John Braxton, who will be a junior at Swarthmore, was a member of the eight man crew of the 50 foot ketch Phoenix which sailed last winter from Hong Kong to Haiphong, defying a State Department ban and government statute, to deliver several thousands dollars worth of vital surgical and x-ray equipment to the North Vietnamese Red Cross...
RICHARD HUGHES Chief Banto Baritsu Chapter of Baker Street Irregulars Hong Kong Sir: Okay, I can see leaving Gertrude Stein (straight) and Alice B. Toklas (soul) off your list, but Dear Abby (straight) and Ann Landers (soul) - unforgivable. BETSY TREMONT Teheran Sir: Please include Adlai Stevenson, soul uncle to all. SP4 A. R. WAYMAN, U.S.A. Avon Park, Fla. Sir: Aero engineers stole the moon out of Junes Medico pioneers took the heart out of tunes About all that's left in the bowl luv, is soul. ESTHER ANN GOLDBERG Lyndhurst, Ohio That Corson Book Sir: In its criticism...
Swollen to flood stage by recent rainstorms, the muddy Pearl River last week washed some grisly flotsam onto the shores of the islands that hug South China. On Hong Kong and Macao, 43 bodies drifted to shore-many brutally slashed and six of them trussed, their arms and legs roped to their necks. The Pearl's cargo confirmed, in dramatic fashion, reports from the mainland by travelers, press and radio that the worst factional fighting in a year is spreading throughout much of China, particularly its southern half...