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...book, Enlightened Society, carries the picture of the "great leader" Mao Tse-tung, describes Japan as "the problem child of the Far East" and a nation that has always been inferior to China and Russia. The Russian declaration of war in 1945 is a triumph in which "the Japanese Kwangtung garrison, which had been played up as the. strongest of Japan's armies, melted away before the might of the Soviet forces...
...Kwangtung province, Peking claimed that a plot to blow up the Canton-Shamchun rail line died aborning when the chief saboteur, "caught carrying 1.5 kilograms of U.S.-made high explosives," had a change of mind and surrendered to authorities. He told Red officials he had been "coerced" by Nationalist agents in Hong Kong, and a grateful Peoples' Council decided that this full and frank confession deserved a reward: they gave him a fountain pen. Communist informers also uncovered a plot in Tsinghai "led by intellectuals and financed by capitalists" who planned to overthrow the regime. The plotters' goal...
Behind the great arc that stretches from Shantung province on the Yellow Sea to the southern coast of Kwangtung province on the Gulf of Tonkin, the vast heartland of China was once more beset by its most ancient of enemies-flood and famine. From Kwangtung alone, refugees streamed into the refugee-packed British Crown Colony of Hong Kong at an officially counted rate of 100 a day; how many others came across the Communist border uncounted, no one knew. In the nearby Portuguese colony of Macao, officials estimated that 20,000 Chinese refugees had fled their homeland in the past...
Peking announced that 2,000,000 workers had been pressed into flood-fighting work, carefully refrained from reporting death tolls (estimated to run into scores of thousands), but eulogized nine party members killed while fighting flood waters in Kwangtung. In Shantung the rains fell steadily for a fortnight; in Kwangtung and Kwangsi, in South China, it rained for 22 days. Shanghai reported the worst rains in 80 years...
More than anything else, Mao seemed to be driving home to his bureaucracy the fact that the kind of discontent that had led to riot and revolt in Eastern Europe was beginning to appear in China. In the factories of Kwangtung province alone, admitted the Communist New China News Agency last week, there have been 13 strikes in the past year. Worse yet, in the same period nearly 118,000 Kwangtung peasants and their families walked off state collective farms and, despite all the regime's effort, more than 16,000 of them had stubbornly refused to go back...