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...first, measuring 7.2, shook a sparsely populated area near the Great Snow Mountain in central China. It came just as residents of Peking were ending their three-week camp-out in the wake of the great quake that struck the Chinese capital and demolished the nearby industrial city of Tangshan last month. Two days later, a seismic jolt damaged more than a hundred homes on the Izu Peninsula 80 miles south of Tokyo. Scientists said the close sequence of quakes was probably coincidental, though they admit the rash of recent earthquakes in the Far East is disturbing and may suggest...
...Maurice Monge, a French traveler staying in a hotel in Tangshan, the scramble to safety down heaving stairs and past crumbling masonry was an even greater nightmare: "It was horrible. We were lost, like in an ocean, an ocean in which everything was moving...
...dams and toppled buildings across one of China's most populous regions (see map), a swatch of Hopei province bordering the Gulf of Po Hai and encompassing not only Peking and its 7.5 million inhabitants but also China's third largest city, Tientsin (pop. 4.3 million), and Tangshan (pop. 1 million), an industrial and mining center. China's government publicly admitted only "great losses to the people, life and property" and turned aside foreign offers of aid, but it also rallied troops and civilian rescue teams to deal with the disaster...
...most serious devastation occurred in Tangshan, where the epicenter of the quake was located; it was described by members of a French friendship delegation visiting there as "ruined totally, 100%." The consequences for Chinese industry may be severe, since the city is both a center for the production of rail locomotives, diesel engines and other heavy machinery and the country's largest single producer of coal. Many miners, who work in shifts round the clock, were feared entombed in the deep caverns beneath the city...
Ardent Desire. In Red China last week, the Laborites also visited three Russian-equipped iron and steel mills at Anshan and a coal mine at Tangshan, Manchuria. The young mine director told the Laborites that production was much higher than before the war because the workers were now the enthusiastic owners of the plant. Further research, however, disclosed that 1) the mine had been confiscated from a British company, and the Laborites were now inspecting stolen property; 2) the British had had almost as high a production rate as the Communists now claim. Nye Bevan went down the mine...