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...thousand peasants of Kwangsi province revolted and fought Communist troops for a full week after Red guards shot peasant leaders for resisting a local administrative order (Kwangsi Daily...
...Committee gave a surprisingly frank explanation: "Special agents, bandits of America and Chiang Kaishek, have emerged openly from their underground hiding places . . . They are plundering openly, assassinating party cadres . . . even revolting in many places." He cited an impressive example: 3,000 Communist government agents had been killed recently in Kwangsi Province, near the border of Indo-China...
...executions. Four former Nationalist officers were sentenced to death in Canton. After the failure of a peasant revolt in Shantung, nine of the ringleaders were executed. In Toy-shan, Kwangtung Province, 165 guerrillas were captured. Chinese Red army headquarters said14,781 bandits had been killed last month in the Kwangsi mountains...
...report to Peking, the Communist chairmen of South China's Kwangsi and Kwangtung provinces told of heavy Nationalist guerrilla activity, depression and unemployment in cities, peasant resistance to rice-tax collection. Last spring, they said, rumors of a Nationalist comeback, of a Japanese "invasion" of Manchuria and a U.S. "invasion" of Shanghai excited mobs to massacre 105 commissars in two counties alone...
...Communists bore down on the Nationalist shadow capital of Chungking, Acting President Li Tsung-jen took off on an inspection tour of his native Kwangsi province. Last week, he stepped off a plane in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, announced he would enter a hospital for treatment of an old gastric ailment. In Chungking, wily old Shansi warlord Yen Hsi-shan, Taiyuan's unsuccessful defender (TIME, June 13), stepped into Li's place. Secretaries kept Li's office open, but no one really thought that he would be back...