Word: kung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, all citizens would have to tighten belts, practice extreme thrift and frugality. Thundered Ta Kung Pao: "The rest of China is poor, but Shanghai looks wealthy. The rest of China lives a spare and simple life, but Shanghai indulges in luxury. The time has come for this abnormal situation to be corrected...
...belt ranged Nationalist demolition teams, blowing all bridges that might be used by enemy vehicles. Long columns of weary, bedraggled infantrymen plodded back from the front to take up new positions nearer the city. A young captain in tennis shoes, a grimy sweat rag at his waist, said nervously: "Kung-fei hen li hai [the Communist bandits are very fierce]." In a day-long battle to the northwest, his regiment had lost a third of its men. The captain crouched, swung his silver-knobbed cane in imitation of a Tommy gun. "They came from all sides," he said, "five...
Over the years, politically independent Editor Kung, whose readers call him Ta Pao Hsiensheng ("Mister Big Cannon"), has fired at an impressive variety of targets, often in terms far beyond occidental ideas of press freedom. His most abiding hates have been the Japanese, the Chinese Communists and Kuomintang corruption. It was Editor Kung who started the criticism that helped sweep Finance Minister T. V. Soong out of office (in 1933), and his attacks have helped unsettle at least three cabinets. Two years ago, David Kung, son of former Finance Minister H. H. Kung and nephew of Madame Chiang, was accused...
Last April, during China's vice presidential elections, Kung cannonaded: "The election of Sun Fo to the Vice Presidency would be a confession of nationwide corruption." The next day, two truckloads of thugs wrecked the National Salvation Daily and put nine staffers in the hospital. Kung lost only one day in getting his paper out on borrowed presses...
Despite his criticisms, the Nationalist government recognizes Kung as a powerful foe of Communism, and until recently distributed copies of his paper to Nationalist troops. If the Communists ever catch him, Kung is sure that they will kill him. But he does not intend to spike his editorial cannon. Says he: "Chih su pupien [unchangeable until...