Word: wuchow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...River to Hong Kong and Macao (TIME, July 5). The number by last week had reached 66, most of them tied and mangled. Last week the China-watchers got another indication of the state of affairs in side China when a batch of newspaper photographs reached Hong Kong from Wuchow, a river-trade city in the Kwangsi region of South China. Although blurred and faded, the pictures provided the first photographic proof of the recent ravages caused by factional fighting...
Appearing in a paper printed by the United Command, a relatively conservative Red Guard faction, the pictures showed burned-out buildings, debris-littered streets and general devastation in Wuchow. The accompanying text shrilly blamed the destruction on a radical faction. The radicals' newspaper, printed at about the same time, blames the damage on the conservatives and claims that the fierce fighting reduced more than 2,000 buildings to rubble, left 40,000 residents homeless and killed hundreds...