Word: hopei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark night in Hopei province...
...past month Radio Peking has acknowledged that 15 million people are facing starvation in eastern Hopei province, and reported the firing of two vice governors and the downgrading of eight local functionaries in famine-stricken Kwangsi province for failing to transport foodstuffs to a stricken area, thus causing 550 people to die of hunger...
Over Radio Peking last week came a curious report. There had been an attempt, said the official Communist radio, to overthrow the government. The plotters were a group of "religious sects" operating among the Buddhist farmers of Hopei Province (who have always chafed under the Communists' anti-religious policies). The government had found, near Peking, 27 underground "code rooms" and "hideaways," one of them big enough for more than 30 people. The rebels had intended to re-establish a monarchy...
...South China, began teaching Chinese peasants to operate U.S. tractors. "In Nationalist-held territory," he told the Senators last week, "our work was disappointing. The land belonged to the largest landowners . . . ordinary folk went hungry." On UNRRA orders, Hinton was sent across the battle lines to Communist-held Hopei. Suddenly, even the sun seemed to shine more brightly in his eyes...
...were accused and quickly convicted: Antonio Riva, wealthy, high-living Italian trader who once boasted he could do business under any kind of Chinese regime, and Ruichi Yamaguchi, a scholarly Japanese bookseller-death; Italian Bishop Tarcisio Martina, 64, longtime head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Yihsien in Hopei province-life imprisonment; four foreign-born old China hands and one Chinese businessman-prison terms ranging from five to ten years...