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Formosa. When Clerk Tsai Yung-ting awoke at 2 a.m., the rain had been falling for hours on the sleeping coastal village of Houlung. Too late, he rushed down to the sea wall-to find the dike watchmen asleep and the water pouring through. By the time he got back to rouse the sleeping village, the torrent was already waisthigh. That night Tsai and 29 others of Houlung's 100 people died...
Tokyo sent Brigadier General Francis T. Dodd, U.S. Eighth Army Deputy Chief of Staff, and a board of seven officers to investigate the riots. At Panmunjom, Red truce negotiator Colonel Tsai Chengwen sneered, "The massacre fully testifies to the brutal inhumanity with which your side treats our personnel." U.N. officers were convinced that the riots testified to something else: a deliberate Communist attempt to discredit the U.N. demand for voluntary repatriation of prisoners...
...those who have lost government jobs because of a Communist "economy" wave in administration, the Communists had coined a new euphemism. What Chinese used to call bluntly tsai yuan (cutting personnel) has become ching chien ("considered simplification" of office personnel...
...China's farmers, the time of the annual shui tsai (water calamity) had come again. The muddy Yangtze, gorged with weeks of heavy rains, was spreading over more than 1,000 miles of south central China's rice bowl. To the north, "China's Sorrow," the great Yellow River, raced angrily over the broad Shantung flatlands...
...Chinese tragedy that distant Sinkiang had been misruled, from 1928 until 1944, by notorious Warlord Sheng Shih-tsai. Nominally as the proconsul of the Chinese Central Government, General Sheng administered a private terror that brought death to at least 50,000 people in 16 years...