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When the Communists made the 6,000-mile "Long March" from southern Kiangsi to Yenan in 1934-35, Liu Shao-chi remained in Kuomintang territory as a Red agent. Summoned to Yenan in 1942 he began his rise to the top levels of the party reportedly as personal secretary to Mao Tse-tung, and as an expert in "indoctrination methods," meaning brainwashing...
Like Quemoy 's 100,000-man garrison, Cheng Ch'i is a refugee from the China mainland having fled Kiangsi province in 1949 before the conquering Red tide. It has not missed an edition since. Supported by the Quemoy Military Defense Command, the seven-days-a-week paper reserves most of its run-5,500 copies-for free distribution to troops, sells the balance (at 1? a copy, 25? a month) to villagers in Quemoy, oyster fishermen in North Mountain, sweet potato and millet farmers in South Mountain. About $250 in monthly advertising revenue comes from Formosa merchants...
...Inner Mongolia, reported New China News Agency, peasants "marked the occasion with revelry that included singing, dancing, and decorating their houses with lamps." In Kiangsi province they beat drums and gongs and shot off firecrackers. Cause of all this merriment: formation of two new "people's communes"-the most determined attempt yet to reduce human beings to the status of ants...
...favorite recreation of Communist China's children, and so useful too, is the game of hunting and killing the "four injurious pests." Kiangsi Radio reports that the children of Hsuangsi village called the pests "little Chiang Kai-sheks, thus creating considerable enthusiasm for eliminating them." In one recent two-week stretch alone, 710,000 children destroyed 2,832,000 sparrows, 869,525 rats...
...animals, in Anhwei province even their own children, in exchange for a decent bite to eat. In the Tungting Lake region, badly ravaged by the floods, one in every two peasants was reported starving; in one town in Hunan, 527 out of 600 families were dependent on relief. Kiangsi daily admitted food riots in Sunwu county, where 20 peasants were killed or wounded when they tried to storm Communist storage granaries. The peasant resentment was so bad, People's Daily admitted, that "most party workers are either afraid of offending the masses, or were blamed by their own families...