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...last week,there were nearly 25,000 communes; their membership, at least on paper, comprised more than 90% of China's peasantry. The movement is now spreading to the cities. At Yangchuan coal mine in Shansi province, where more than 28,000 miners and their families formerly lived in "an unorganized, undisciplined manner." i.e., scattered around as they chose, workers have now been assigned to living quarters according to their work areas and shifts; according to Peking's People's Daily, "the head of a mine pit is simultaneously company commander of the militia and head...
Last week, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Dr. Pei's discovery, the Peking radio announced that Communist scientists had uncovered pieces of Peking man in Shansi province. Now on display in Peking, said the Reds, were five of "his" teeth and pieces of arm and shinbone...
...Soviet pattern now seems to be at work in China. In 1946, the peasants in Shansi province, in the northwest, were among the first in China to be violently communized: landlords were liquidated and everything was divided equally, not only the land but hoes and scythes. Even farm animals were slaughtered so as to be divisible. Last week Mao Tse-tung's Reds made public a study of what happened to 600 Shansi peasant families in five villages during five years of agrarian reform. The report was full of standard propaganda touches-"Drowning of girl babies has stopped...
...Chungking, Acting President Li Tsung-jen took off on an inspection tour of his native Kwangsi province. Last week, he stepped off a plane in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, announced he would enter a hospital for treatment of an old gastric ailment. In Chungking, wily old Shansi warlord Yen Hsi-shan, Taiyuan's unsuccessful defender (TIME, June 13), stepped into Li's place. Secretaries kept Li's office open, but no one really thought that he would be back...
...curb inflation-although a lot more was obviously needed for that Herculean task than the Gimo's reserve. Li also wanted the treasure to pay Nationalist troops along the Yangtze in hard cash, thus boost their morale. To Fenghua went old Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, governor of Shansi province, to plead with Chiang for return of the funds...