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Liberal folklore regarded Chinese Communists as humanitarians who would rather re-educate criminals than punish them. Reports of purges inside China under the new Red penal code have brushed away most vestiges of this belief. Shih Liang, Red China's woman Minister of Justice, in recent instructions to her courts finally laid it to rest...
...lock," polo-playing Tom Calhoun the other wing forward, while George Lee, Club secretary, and Brad Lundborg make up the second row. Doug Hardy and Club treasurer Bruce White are in the front row, with Lew Travis as be hooker. The spares are Hollis Hunnewell, Ken Kunhardt, Kit Liang, Andy Eklund, and David Akers...
...Nationalist officials made an eleventh-hour getaway from Kiangwan airfield. One of them was Mayor Chen Liang, who had just announced the beginning of "Health Week" in Shanghai. Quipped the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury the next day, before the Communists took it over: "The mayor certainly was sincere about it. He found out what seemed best for his health and promptly did it." By dusk, the western and southern outskirts of the city were bare of troops...
After three days the Nationalist line blocking the Reds from Woosung still held firm. Said a Chinese Central News Agency dispatch: ". . . in a sea of blood and death the troops are fighting on & on." To bolster morale, Shanghai's new mayor, Chen Liang, rode out to the front in a truck loaded with gifts for the troops-20 live pigs, 20 cases of cigarettes, 3,000 sandwiches and 600 towels. At Lunghua airport, U.S. airlines announced the departure of their last planes from Shanghai. The planes took off with passengers jammed three to a seat...
...balconies and rooftops, strings of yellow fish dried in the hot spring sun. Shouting, gesturing crowds thronged around the rice shops to lay in supplies. Mayor Chen Liang asked everyone to plant victory gardens. No need to worry, he said: "The pillboxes around Shanghai are as many as the stars...