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...when he salvaged some 2,000 stragglers from the wreck of the Nationalist Thirteenth Army Group and withdrew his demoralized troops to the Shan mountains on the Burma side of the border. In May 1951 Li attacked Red Yunnan with several thousand recruits gleaned from the borderlands, occupied eight hsien (Chinese counties), and appealed for volunteers. "Every able-bodied man in the district" stepped forward, he says; the National Salvation Army increased...
...Communist paper in Hunan province reported: "An everyday scene in the Hunan countryside is the sight of peasant militiamen, armed with spears and rifles, taking landowners to the execution grounds." A Canton paper rounded up the toll by hsien, or counties: "Fifty counterrevolutionaries executed in the last three days in Kwongning hsien . . . -Authorities in Nanhoi hsien are carrying out their movement to clear the local prison of its overflowing inmates. About 20 are being taken out each day . . . for execution . . . More than 300 have been executed during the current month . . . The Military Control Committee of Yanping hsien yesterday carried...
...armed struggle: "A Communist war which lasts ten years may be surprising to other countries, but for us this is only the preface . . . Historical experience is written in blood and iron." No warlord has left a more gory trail of death than Mao, not since the mad General Chang Hsien-chung, who slaughtered 30 million in Szechuan during the Ming Dynasty and left an engraving in stone which read...
...negotiations between the Tibetans and the Red masters of China. Last April a seven-man delegation, headed by Finance Minister Tsepon Shakabpa, made the arduous trip to New Delhi from Lhasa, the remote, lamasery-studded capital of Tibet. They waited five months for the arrival of General Yuan Chung-hsien, the new Chinese Communist Ambassador to India. When he arrived, the Red envoy suggested the Tibetans go on to Peking. It was so arranged. The delegation, like Nehru, had its dreams; Tibetan Minister Shakabpa scornfully brushed off talk of an impending attack on his country: "How can there...
...while driving in Cheng Hsien Street, my car almost ran over a beggar who lay writhing and twitching in the roadway. I started to get out to help him, but my interpreter warned that in the eyes of the local police I would automatically become responsible for him, would probably have to pay for his funeral. The beggar, the interpreter explained, was dying of starvation. We drove on. On the way back we saw the beggar's body, quite still, with head and shoulders grotesquely protruding into the street while pedestrians and rickshas eddied around...