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...inhuman, insatiable, indiscriminate bombing." Several of the eight captured airmen were tortured to tell where they had come from, and three were executed by firing squad. Worse, the Japanese army tried to punish all Chinese who might have helped the downed pilots, and the slaughter in Chekiang and Kiangsu provinces took a toll estimated at more than 200,000. As often happened in this hate-filled era, each side angrily denounced the other's actions as atrocities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down but Not Out | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...prison. In Szechwan, one of China's rice bowls, an armed group calling itself the "Red Worker-Peasant Guerrilla Column" is said to be roaming the hills. In Hunan, Chairman Mao's home province, authorities complain that "the trend of anarchism ran rampant" all last summer. In Kiangsu, Maoist cultural cadres are vociferously denouncing "rock-'n'-roll crazy dances and vulgar and revolting actions in some so-called revolutionary dances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: CHINA'S TWO DECADES OF COMMUNISM | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

Wall posters in Peking announced that farmers were threatening to march through Kiangsu province to lay siege to Nanking and Shanghai. Mass move ments of refugees were reported, and the People's Liberation Army massed troops at the border to prevent any from escaping into Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Divided Army | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...cantonment of Canton by the army added the city and its province, Kwangtung, to the roster of five other provinces-Shensi, Kweichow, Heilungkiang, Shantung and Kiangsu-that the Maoists claim to have fully captured for the revolution with army aid. Three days later, Radio Peking proclaimed that the army had taken over industrial and agricultural production in three more southern provinces. In his struggle to impose his will on China's 750 million people, Mao has clearly turned to dependence on the army instead of the Red Guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Cantonment in Canton | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...troop concentrations, totaling 800,000 men, are in the industrial northeast-around the Manchurian factory complexes and facing the Soviet border-and on the Great Plains between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. Some 600,000 more troops are stacked up like nice neat boxes along the eastern coast from Kiangsu to Kwangtung province, with a 200,000-man bulge directly across from Formosa. Surprisingly enough, there are no more than 200,000 soldiers along the entire southern rim of China, including the borders with Viet Nam and Laos. Of the 50,000 Chinese troops in North Viet Nam, the bulk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Back to the Cave! | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

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