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...rhetorical battles that have raged between Peking and Hanoi since May, the principal casualties have been the Chinese residents of Viet Nam. Caught in a crossfire of conflicting national and political interests, 160,000 refugees have already made the trek across the Vietnamese border into China's Yunnan and Kwangsi provinces. The Viet Nam government has explained the exodus by charging that Peking's embassy in Hanoi had hired agents provocateurs to roil Viet Nam's 1.2 million Hoa (ethnic Chinese) and induce them to leave the country. Hanoi produced two such alleged agents who "confessed" that they had plotted...
...past two months, according to Peking, more than 102,000 refugees have streamed across the border into Yunnan province and the Kwangsi region, where emergency measures are being taken to resettle them on state farms and communes. Soon, Peking announced, it would dispatch ships to the Vietnamese coast in order to pick up its mistreated countrymen. In Hong Kong, leftist newspapers predicted that perhaps 300,000 more Chinese would emigrate from Viet Nam in the next few weeks...
...discredited radicals or by squabbling factions trying to settle old scores with political enemies. Whatever the reason, stringent measures are being taken to suppress troublemakers, who have been denounced as "criminal gangs." Earlier Hua was forced to send 12,000 troops into Fukien province to deal with "sabotage." From Yunnan last week came stern warnings that "we must resolutely suppress the counterrevolutionaries who beat, wreck and loot...
Died. Chu Teh, 90, legendary commander of China's Red Army during the '30s and '40s; in Peking. Chu Teh studied at the Yunnan Military Academy and in 1922 went to Berlin to study Marxism; there he met Chou En-lai and joined the Chinese Communist Party. Back in China, he joined forces in 1928 with Mao Tse-tung, who was organizing the Red Fourth Army. Chu Teh led the 6,000-mile Long March to Shensi province to avoid destruction by Chiang Kai-shek and was Mao's field commander in the successful struggle against...
...left behind, the Chinese, who had already pushed a road from Yunnan province into northern Laos, recently agreed to extend it 80 miles down to Luang Prabang. Both Moscow and Peking have worked out deals with Royal Dutch/Shell to give the Laotians gasoline-8,000 tons from the Russians. 7,600 from the Chinese...