Word: mukden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...food in China? "Excellent -really excellent. It's no problem and never will be. They've solved the transportation problem and that's solved the food problem and the harvest problem. The freight and passenger service is really marvelous. Incredibly efficient. I was on the Peking-Mukden train not long ago. It was a beautiful train and on time for 24 hours. Not one minute ahead and not one minute behind." Could Winnington write stories critical of the Red regime? "But why on earth should anyone want to write criticisms when there are so many really wonderful...
...blood flowed on & on. Last week Red China's purge of "counterrevolutionaries" reached Manchuria, where Communist rule had seemed unchallenged. In 23 Manchurian cities, including Mukden and Changchun, and even in Russian-controlled Port Arthur and Dairen, police staged large-scale raids, which were reported in detail by Communist news service and radio. Thousands were arrested, hundreds hauled off to the inevitable public mass trials and executions...
...Mukden reported that 1,120,000 people -the city's entire population-attended one or another of twelve trials. The main show, at which "hundreds" were condemned to death, took place at the Municipal Sports Stadium. It began with the spectators singing a romantic ballad from Chairman Mao Tse-tung's favorite drama, The White-Haired Woman.* Then Police Chief Ho Yah read the charges against the accused. The audience responded with the usual chants of hate and death. An actress emerged from the crowd, accused her father of heinous crimes, including rape, and demanded his death...
Factories, mines, farms all have "model brigades" which challenge other brigades in a race of production. The Ma Heng-chang lathe brigade of machine-tool Factory No. 5 in Mukden has gained fame by reducing the time for producing a spiral roller-bearing from two hours to 15 minutes. Coalminer Lo Yung-chin of the Fengfeng pit in Huainan colliery holds the title in his class, with 254 tons dug during a one-man shift of 6½ hours...
...China had been forced into the war by Allied bombing of Mukden...