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Peking's Mayor Peng Chen, chief organizer of the purges, called for more executions. The Chinese press diligently reported the antiphonal dialogue, almost liturgical in tone, between Peng and a conference of Communist deputies...
After the Central People's Government Council ordered life imprisonment or the death penalty for .21 crimes (including draft-dodging, tax delinquency and the spreading of "false rumors"), Vice Chairman Peng Chen of the Council's Political and Legal 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...
...Leniency," continued Peng, "is a mistake. We must enforce severe suppression. We must kill those who ought to be killed, imprison those who ought to be imprisoned, and control those who ought to be controlled...
...First Field Army (about 280,000) garrisons China's northwest, stretching from Kansu province to the distant Sinkiang border of Russian Kazakstan. Its boss is wily General Peng Teh-huai. A politician as well as soldier, Peng is also deputy to Chu Teh, the Red army's commander in chief; he and Chu are the only generals on the five-man secretariat that administers the Chinese Communist Party machine...
While Red armies swept unchecked toward Canton, news came of a jolt to Communist hopes in China's far Northwest. Last month 120,000 Reds under General Peng Teh-huai had chased an old Nationalist adversary, moody General Hu Tsung-nan, from the stronghold of Sian (see map). The way to rich Szechuan province and its famed capital Chungking seemed open. Instead, Communist Peng's men, thrusting on from Sian, rushed into a trap; it was the Chinese Red army's first defeat since the start of their all-out offensive...