Word: kwangtung
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...part-time operation, a month's rice ration lasts barely three days, sugar is issued only four times a year, and housewives try to thicken watery gruel by adding grass. Hungry people from Tientsin sneak into the fields at night to steal corn from the stalks, and Kwangtung villagers are reportedly eating bark from the trees. Among the fantastic mountain shapes of Kweilin spread even more fantastic rumors: the sour-tasting new soy sauce is said to be made from human hair. In Peking, when the first fish to arrive in weeks proved rotten, enraged women beat...
...Manchuria rampaging rivers drowned coal mines and steel mills in Anshan and Mukden. Yet bad weather, which Li Fu-chun and Peking's other leaders used as an excuse, was far from the whole explanation of China's woes. Formosa, Hong Kong and China's Kwangtung province have much the same weather. But though Hong Kong crops dropped by 8% and Formosa's by 13%, Kwangtung's agricultural output declined a full 30%. Communist mismanagement accounts
Peking's Communist government blames it all on the weather. But in a recent study, Hong Kong University Economist E. Stuart Kirby points out that Hong Kong, Formosa and Red China's Kwangtung province all get more or less the same weather. And the weather has unquestionably been bad. But while Hong Kong's crops are off only 8%, and Formosan output is down 13%, Kwangtung's yield has fallen 30%. His conclusion: Red China's problem is not just weather, but a wide demoralization of the peasantry...
...doctor could no longer keep a stiff upper lip. "Damn them!" he exploded. "They had this thing raging in there, and they tried to keep it a secret. It's inhuman." By "they" he meant Communist authorities of Red China, who had a cholera epidemic for months in Kwangtung province, around Canton, and had tried to keep news of it from slipping through the cracks in the Bamboo Curtain. They could not keep the tiny microbe of cholera, Vibrio comma, from slipping through with refugees escaping to Hong Kong or to the nearby Portuguese islet colony of Macao...
...work trying to plant winter vegetables and fast-ripening varieties of wheat. Said Radio Peking: "Sowing had to be carried out a second, or even a fifth or sixth time to wrest a harvest when the shoots were killed by scorching sun or floods." Reported one refugee from Kwangtung province: "Everybody is half dead in my village. They work from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. and all they get is seven ounces of rice and a few sticks of vegetables...