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...Liuan there is the memory of one of Liu's raids. In 16 days of occupation the Communists milked the area: 20,000 bags of rice, 6,000 bolts of cloth, 800 drums of kerosene, piles of padded winter garments, all paid for in I.O.U.s marked 'Democratic Hsien Government.' Impressed barrow-men and mule carts lugged the loot into the hills. Wherever young men were found, they were carried off as 'recruits...
Cried Chen Yang-piao: "In Fukien if I am not the No. 1 candidate, I surely am the No. 2. Why am I not on the list?" Teng Kung-hsien pounded the speaker's table as though squashing injustice. "We have been on the wrong road! Why belong to the Kuomintang after...
...Morality of Stomachs. In China's new Government Chen holds no job. He exerts his influence in other ways. From his post as Secretary-General of the Kuomintang's Central Political Council ("the politburo"), Chen runs the local party machinery through control of hsien-township-magistrates. Chen's magistrates collect the taxes, confiscate the grain for the armies, run' conscription...
...Chen Li-fu and his brother had been given charge of the Kuomintang secret police. Loyal to Chiang, as hsiao required, they set up a Kuomintang underground, infiltrated Communist groups. Chen Li-fu traveled with speed and silence over south and central China, met with secret party leaders and hsien magistrates, testing the loyal, liquidating the disloyal...
When the ruinous Jap air raid of May 4, 1939 flattened 25% of Chungking's downtown buildings, the Government had turned over the former Pa Hsien Middle School compound to the press. All the place ever had in its favor was its central location. Air-raid dugouts, Chiang Kai-shek's house and the Chinese Central News Agency were within half a mile...