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...been allowed to cultivate-and to use as a source of independent income. It seemed illogical, since it was the incentive that helped boost farm production in the first place. Nevertheless, in Kiangsi province, Radio Nanchang exhorts daily: "The collective must come before private plots." At a commune in Kwangtung province, where peasants used to have to supply the collective with 33 Ibs. of human ordure a month, their quota has been boosted to 55 Ibs., thus limiting the only fertilizer available for freelance farming. As an added turn of the screw, production quotas for collective output have been sharply...
That secrecy made a news item from Red China all the more interesting last week. Radio Peking trumpeted an announcement that Communist security forces had "wiped out" 172 commandos who had secretly landed in coastal Kwangtung province last fall. The Communists claimed that the interlopers planned to set up a "guerrilla corridor" in Kwangtung "to open the way for a subsequent military adventure of invading the mainland." To back up the story, Communist newspapers splashed front-page pictures of the captured agents and their stockpiles of U.S. rifles, grenades, and plastic demolition equipment...
...Foot Chain. With a batch of 1,200 other prisoners, Chan was shipped into the mountains of northern Kwangtung to work twelve hours a day on a skimpy ration of rice. Within two months. 300 of the prisoners died. In this and two other camps, Chan was continually in trouble. After writing a poetic lament for his pre-Communist life, Chan was denounced before a mass meeting of other prisoners, beaten, and forced to stand and kneel and stand again for hours. In 1960, while on a rock removal detail, Chan complained to the authorities that "corrupt cadres" were stealing...
Hunger was still Red China's most pressing problem. Refugees from Canton reported that 800,000 of the city's population of 2,000,000 are being transferred to farm communes in an effort to increase agricultural output. Heavy industry in Kwangtung has come to a virtual standstill as plants have either shut down or are operating with only skeleton forces...
...Shanghai, where failure of the cotton crop has paralyzed textile mills, unemployed workers are being used as street cleaners. And it is becoming hard even to die. In one Kwangtung area, the commune provides one coffin per month, first come, first served. Other corpses must be buried in paper cartons, though some families scrape together enough wood to make triangular coffins, saving on corners...