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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 2, 1988.

VILLAGERS IN SHANTUNG, LIKE

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HUNTED ANIMALS, SEEK CAVES,UEENS

HOLES IN GROUND AT NIGHTS

Thousands of people in northern With methodical thoroughness, it Shantung leave their homes at is reported, the soldiers went from dusk daily in a nocturnal trek to courtyard to courtyard with light the fields, caves and holes in the ed torches. Houses, furniture, cloth- ground. Like hunted animals, ing, bedding, grain, fuel, seed for they seek a place where they can planting, all went up in smoke with- spend the night in peace, and at in a few hours. daylight return to their homes-if their villages are still standing..

It was a desolate-looking village and the people who hours later ap- Hundreds of miles beyond the peared from behind their mudded. now historic battlefields of sou-up doorways were a desolate folk thern Shantung-practically all All this because of guerilla activity along the Kiao-tai Railway line in the vicinity.

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which connects Tsingtao with From Shuntefu, also in Hopel Tainan in northern Shantung--the Province, comes another such „re- reports of continued and elusive port, from the lips of a man, one of guerilla activity have now reached a group of 40, who alone miracul- Hong Kong by various channels ously escaped death. from reliable foreign 'sources, This villager resided in the vil- Guerilla warfare here is more or lage of Yu La, west of Shunteh, less continuous on one or another which suffered heavily. Together section of this line, and especially with 40 other men of the village, he along the 40-mile branch which con- was led out for slaughter. All were nects Changtien, 120 miles east of killed by Japanese soldiers for al- Tainan along the main line, with legedly having given aid to gueril Donald Duck in “DONALD'S BETTER SELF”

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And everywhere severe reprisals on the part of Japanese

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caused inestimable suffering profusely, he managed, to drag him- |

self back to his home and was cared CHANGE for by surviving relatives.

nocent people. Villages by the scores have been reduced to ashes, Along this 40-mile strip of railway, the branch Changtien-Poshan line alone, there are approximately 100 such ash heaps, once peaceful little villages.

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Taken later to a Christian hospi- tal, he recovered and told a horrible tale of wanton killing of villagers.

Reports of these acts of reprisal, although coming from sources far apart, are identical. It is by such

So despera mom Plight of these tactics that the populace is being villagers whose homes and all terrorised, The informant was in- worldly possessions have gone up in formed, but it is exactly these smoke that few even beg. There is tactics which defeat their own aims, nobody to beg from..

building up bitterness, resentment Frequent cases of accidental and a will to resist which never be- ahooting are brought in to the Fosfore existed.

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ler reports. On June 10 a child,

shot through the stomach, was

brought in just in time to die after NEW LOTTERY TO

opiates were administered. Only a fraction of these cases can possibly be known.

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Business is at a standstill at the Poshan mines. Potteries and glass works have all closed, down. Gruel In effort to procure funds for aid- kitchens are being operated by re-ing refugees and other civilian vic- lief groups, but they are not able tims of the hostilities, a group of to care for even a fraction of the destitute.

local French merchants have, or ganized a company with $10,000 capital, which will operate a lottery and take part in other commercial enterprises.

Not only are these acts of "re- prisal" carried on in Shantung. An almost identical scene was witness- ed in Paoting, Hopei Province. Ear- The company's name is registered ly in May a truck-load of Japanese, as "The Charity Lottery in Aid of administrative soldiers arrived in a little village of Refugees" and its 750 people near Paoting. The committee is announced to be com- families, grandparents, parents and posed of Mesara: Ch. Baboud, G. children, fled to the field and near- by villages almost immediately. There were fortunately only two or three casualties:-

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