Word: kwangtung
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...Chinese who paid soon received new demands and new threats. To the small merchants who received them, some of the requests were huge. A group of Honolulu businessmen with relatives in the Kwangtung village of Bucktoi got a frantic request for $20,000. Another Honolulu Chinese, who sent his father $3,000, was immediately asked for $5,000. He sent it, and got a request for $20,000. By that time he was broke...
Chief subject of anxious speculation among Hong Kong's Catholic refugees last week was the forthcoming trial of Bishop Ford. Fifty-eight-year-old Bishop Francis Ford of the Maryknoll Fathers has worked in Kwangtung since 1918. In 20 years, his flock rose from 9,000 to 20,000. Bishop Ford introduced cement masonry to the Chinese under his care; he built schools, hostels and churches, which he preferred to have designed according to Chinese rather than western standards of architecture. During World War II, he stayed on the job helping Chinese guerrillas and organizing escape routes for downed...
...masters, employees denounced past employers, kinfolk bore witness against each other. The terror scorned the traditional Confucian concept of decent human relationship. Older people, heretofore respected for their years, were led through streets to prisons or to execution, and on the way Communist youth spat at them. In one Kwangtung province town a grey-haired man was forced to crawl on his knees, kowtow to groups of Red workers...
Elsewhere in Kwangtung, the Communist news agency reported, a father tracked down and turned over to the Communists his own son, with these words: "My son is a criminal to the people. He should be killed." Ten lepers in a leprosarium protested against poor food; they were branded as "special agents" and shot. The terror struck at anyone who received a letter from the U.S., at Christian churchgoers, at those who had been connected with the Nationalists or with foreigners...
...recent months, thousands of Chinese have been executed. Formosa's intelligence apparatus, which has been very reliable, disclosed many of the killings, and execution reports also peppered the pages of the official Communist press. New China News Agency (Communist) announced the execution of 96 persons in Canton and Kwangtung Province in a three-day period, some of them women students. The Wuhan radio (Communist) reported that in two weeks the Red army had "exterminated" more than 16,000 "local bandits." Foochow Reds announced the mass arrest of 247 "secret agents...