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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 24, 1989.
KAIFENG STILL FRONTIER CITY AFTER A YEAR
FREQUENT RAIDS BY CHINESE
After nearly a year of Japanese occupation, Kaifeng, Honan provincial capital still has 7,000| Chinese refugees who are being fed daily by Ameri- can and other foreign missionaries.
Kaifeng remains a frontier city, close to the front lines which are at the new Yellow River course a few miles southwest.
Japanese troops show no disposition to cross the river and continue a drive to the west. Chinese troops frequently cross the new stream to the east and raid the environs of Kaifeng.
Recently when Chinese troops ap-
At such times the Japanese close the city gates and sit tight until]proached Kaifeng and attacked its reinforcements arrive.
suburb several times at night, just Missionaries state that the re- when the Japanese garrison was of- fugees they are feeding are natives ficially stated to have been de- of Kaifeng who have no work to pleted, nervousness inside the city support themselves. There are no became widespread and many Chi- flood of war refugees from outside.nese left for Hsuchow. These in- The 30,000 whom they cared for cluded General Hu Yu-kun, chair- when the Japanese took the city man of the Pacification Commission, last June have either found work or gone away.
This is apparently the basis of rumours current throughout China at the time that many of the com- mission had been killed in a revolt their Chinese mercenary troops.
Population has returned to two- thirds of normal, but is composed almost entirely of labourers work- ing for the Japanese, who are build-of ing a new dyke to keep the river in its present course and a new rail- way connecting Kaifeng with the Peiping-Hankow Railway north- east of here.
Approximately half the shops of Keifeng have reopened, but their stocks are small and their doors are only half opened. Shutters remain up, ready to close the shops at short notice. The reason for this is not clear, but it is believed that the populace expects further Chinese attacks on the city.
HOW RUMOUR STARTED Kaifeng is the seat of the Japan- ese-sponsored "Chinese Pacification Commission," which is made up of
jobless
FOREIGNERS NOT HURT
The Japanese-sponsored provin- cial government of Honan has its seat here. Governor Hsiao Jui-cheng greeted the Associated Press
and other visiting correspondents re- cently with a tirade against British and other foreign interests in China, which he said were helping the Chiang Kai-shek regime to exploit the Chinese people.
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Refugee iron-smelters operate a small blow-furnace by hand in
a Northwestern co-operative.
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"There is heartening news from China-the most heartening many months. There is now being organised in China a vast scheme of co-operative industry, to make
millions use of as many as possible of the
EIRE TREASON BILL
Dublin, To-day. The Dail yesterday passed the Treason Bill, under which the death penalty may be inflicted for treason.
The Bill will become law when it is signed_by_the President on Thursday.—Reuter.
try, there is so little they can do. Their country has been crumbling beneath their feet as they stood, be- especially of the factory workers But by bringing industry back to of war refugees, and cause industry has been paralysed, of Shanghai and other cities, near-life in hundreds of places, they are ly all of them thrown out of work staying the destruction." by the invasion.
OVER 500 UNITS
This enthusiastic comment on the
Mr. Hsiao read his speech from a sheet of paper which had been typed
"The development of industrial on a Japanese typewriter. Colonel Co-operatives at the present moment Chinese Industrial Co-operatives S. Usuda, head of the Japanese is of the utmost meaning. It gives came from the pen of Pearl Buck, Army's special mission here, sat relief and life to destitute refugees, who wrote an article in the April it maintains a native industry in issue of "Asia" on this movement Manchurian warlords nearby as the speech was read.
the face of Japan's economic ag-which has, within the short space whose purpose is theoretically to Despite this official anti-foreign gression, and, most important of of eight months, led to the estab- wean troops away from China's na-attitude, foreign missionaries in tionalist cause and form a pro-Jap- Kaifeng, including British and Am-haustible source of moral strength dustrial units throughout China.
all, it provides a new and inex-lishment of more than 500 small in- erican, state they have never been and confidence for the Chinese peo- The members of this commission | molested by either Japanese or Chi-ple. It gives work to the working volunteers is now seeking to rally A promotion committee of local state they have "many troops" al- nese, and that there has been no man, to the trained expert, and to support in Hong Kong for the in- ready lined up, but a visit shows concrete evidence of anti-foreign China's eager young, who are at dustrial co-operatives. nothing more than a few Chinese sentiment beyond such official pro- this time so dismayed because, with Chinese and European personali- Prominent police.
nouncements as Mr. Hsiao's.
all their anxiety to help their counties in the colony, impressed by the
anese army.
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achievements of the young move- ment, as well as by its objects, have lent their names and in many cases their time and efforts to this cam- paign. Mme: Sun Yat-sen, honorary chairman of the Hong Kong Pro-. motion Committee heads the list of 60 sponsors, which also includes Mme. H. H. Kung, Their Excellen- cies Mr. Hsu Shih-ying and Dr. C. T. Wang, Sir Shouson Chow,
Sir* Robert Ho Tung, Sir Robert Kote- wall, Bishop Hall, the Hon. Mr. Thomas Tam, the Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, Mr. LI Shin-kui and others.
SUPPER DANCE
The main event of the campaign will be a supper dance to be held or Friday, In the Grill Room of the Hong Kong Hotel to raise funds for promotion work in connection with the movement. The programme is being arranged by the National Wó- men's Relief Association, the Chin- ese Women's Cluby the Chinese Wo- men's Soldiers' Relief Association and the Kwangtung Women's New Life Movement Association.