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SHANGHAI DIARY

CONDITIONS IN SHANGHAI UNDER COMMUNIST RULE

Except for scattered and generally disconnected reports, the story of the Communists' success or failure in Shanghai has never been com- pletely recorded,

For the first time the "China Mail" presents the detailed day-to-day diary of an experienced foreign observer who was in Shanghai before the occupation, and who arrived in Hong Kong during the past week,

in

are seat

continues. Communists have begun

to

be checked later.

There are no jobs for lawyers jhare: there are no laws.

June 18: A new evidence of "American Imperialism." Local newspapers, including the "Liberation Daily”” have agreed to

ments.

THE CHINA-MAIL MONDAY, SEPTI

Reminders

Today

Liberary, 10.30 am.

-26, 1949.

American College Football

accept American film advertise-HR Réfore Association-meeting,+Michigan hayfortably, while State O: Wolford- 1.

June 22: Two planes bombed Shangħal again yesterday. Little damage.

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Shanghai “because we now

New York, September 24. Howard University 27. Bluefeld Whist drive. European YMCA Most of the nation's big State Q; Oklahoma 46, Boston (for civilians and Services).name college football teams College O; Delaware 29. Perina 8 pm.

took little more than "settingMilitary ; Cenisius 28, Youngs- Crown Land Sale Ping Shan up exercises today to record 5.

Scranton

Mundenberg 7 Jared Office, 12.30 pm. * their first triumphs of the Gener

Geneva Leba

7. Wa preso Get Paintings Exhibition by Missyear, but some got a scare and burg

Valles 14. Tseng Yuho, Fung Ping Sjust a couple were upset. Bridgeport 12, Upsala O; Liberty Army, Notre Dame, North State . Lock Haven Teaghers HK Badminton Association, an- Carolina, Texas, Northwestern B; St. Francis 1. Wilkes Barre nual meeting SCM Post Wisconsin, Minnesota, UCLA and 11; Fairmont State 13, Glenville Board Rod 5.30 pun

Tulane won

Howard puril out all the College 13-United Press. stops her halt

Last B

period

State T-3. Ohio State won a wild and woolly 35-24 game froin Missouri

10% upsets-Villanova's

London, September 24. Wildcats ruined Pean

The following are the results State's

season of of rugby football games played hopes for a glory by 27-6, while Georgia today

League: Barrow 4 Hull 15; Tech's 157 pound line outplayed Bramley 4 Oldham 8: Dewsbury their heavier rivals to dump Liverpool Stanley 15; Feathe Vanderbilt 32-7 in

stone, Rovers 0 Bradford Northern Conference clash.

Prince's Blog 8.30 pm

St. Andrew's Church, Women's enemy drive to hip- Michigan

Guild meeting, 10 am. Opening of Boys and Girls Asso- .ciation swimming beach,

Kennedy Town; 5.30 p.m. Coming Events

A3

electing

A Southern

Rugger Results

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TOMORROW Bridge Drive (for civilians and Services), European YMCA,

In the big inter-sectional battle Huddersfield 18 Widnes 14; 8.p.m.

20 Leeds Rotary Club luncheon, Reef the day, Southern California Hull Kingston Rovers

unveiled a strong hard-hitting 18 Hemslet 1 Salford,10; Leigh Garden, HK Hotel, 12.50 putat that whipped Navy's out 25 Halifax 5; Rochdale Hornets St. Helen's 43 manned Middles 42-20 at the Los 17 Keighley 10 Angeles 'Coliseum.

Wackington Town 10; Swinton 18 Wakefield Trinity 10; War- rington 50 Batley 13; Whitehaven 20 Belle Vue Rangers 5; York 4

32.

WEDNESDAY meeting, 59, MacDonnell Read, 8.30 pm

Lessons, European YMCA, 2 pm.

Mahjong HK Amateur Radio Transmitting Society, China Fleet Club, 5,30 p.m.

Brilliant Possing

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•Wasps borne wmn 5 Cross

June 24: Local police have in- In this diary he has record-esses are open, and the pedicabs vestigated 38 robbery cases since

and seized ed the economic, political and are running. During the day, the occupation, and have arrested 145:

63 pistols imposed by whole Shanghal battle folded op, robbers social conditions the People's Liberation Army, and the Communists have noth lost of robbers are ex-Nation-

than toalist soldiers. ing better to do now and the effect of their govern round up

June 100,000 Nationalists

Shanghai Students' ment on the Chinese and for-who failed to get away to the Union announced that more than eign sections of the popula-Weosung area. Civilian casual-3,700 students are going South to tion.

participate in revolutionary work Des estimated at 200. The diary begins on May 24. May 29: Communists announc- June 29: Communists began HK when fighting was beginning oned today that ECA has ended. city-wide round-up Nationalist the outskirts of Shanghai, and (and Shanghai is on its own. All agents this morning.

June 50

97,000 More thas concludes at the end of August.the Chinese evening papers and

24: Local

Nationalist the two most widely circulated students in Shanghai, Soochow today burned Avering papers-"Sin Wan Pao" and Longchow have applied for Toc garrison

£400,000. and "Shun Pro were suspended entrance examinations to join the BOTRA ships worth Curfew has been ordered from this morning. "Liberation Daily Miltary and Political College for

Wild Guy's Hospital 9. Black- its Nationalists News" published

Arst edition to 8 am

The only thing that kept Navy East China. 9 p.m.

Rosslyn July 2: Of the total number

in the game at all was the bril-heath 9; Harlequins 0 have bedecked city with flags in today. Foreign air and shipping anticipation of a "glorious vic- lines have begun to try and of brothels under the Nationalists

passing of sophomore quar Park 9; London Irish 14 Old terback Bob Zastron who tossed Cranleighans 6; London Welsh 21 tory. They have claimed 12.000 6nd someone to contact who can

in Shanghai-525— with 2,227

three touchdown aerials. People's Liberation Army casua- give them permission to re-open prestitutes, 9 have closed down.

Bridge Catford

6: Old Merchant Notice

Stanford soundly trounced lities.

25: London Scottish golf course is a their services. They failed.

Taylors Hungito

today of

of foreiga news censorship, to have taken

and 234 prostitutes are reported

Harvard- 44-0 in another big old Paulines 6 Moseley

22; Rich- raging batüefield

up other pro-

inter-sectional battle, and Call-md-3 Bedford 9; Aberavon May 25: PLA entered Shang- but the the authorities failed

fessions.

sigh of relief when they found out furcia scored its second victory Fenarth O Aldershot Services & hai after a night of fighting in to find English-speaking censors,

July 4: - Today, 33 Chinese what happened, and the Commo-29-7 over St Mary's. the South Western outskirts. Na so they imposed no censorship, Shanghai Industrialists who fled nists dropped talk of Amethyst tionalists "feree armowed cars but all agencies must leave copies from the Communists, returned like hot potato.

Army, led by Gil Stephenson Keys. 9;

0 Barnstaple of their

their reports at the telegraph attered and abandoned in

Stroud and Arnold Galifia, rored five 6. Cheltenham 16 .August 5: 3fore, than 5, 019 car of the first six times it got pos- Coventry 9 Cardiff 6; Devonport because of the exorbitant tar. The lowed the second string to take Taunton 5: Gloucester 11 Bristol Coca Cola factory, which sold fover (in a 47-7 trouncing

of 11:

Headingley 14 Manchester 10,000 dozen cases last summer, is | Davicson.

13; Llanelly 3 Pontypool 0;-Neath manufacturing only 2,000 dozen 20

3: this summer at the request of three touchdowns, had just as Services, Partsmouth 8; Notts 9

Newport &

Swer- slamping across the line for sea 11 workers, and in turn facturing bean sauce and other easy a time in defeating indiana St. Mary's 6: Plymouth Albin 8

49-6, while Tulane ripped Ala-Old Blues foodstuffs, instead

of my Sama 28-14

Torquay 0 Exeter goods."

by turning loose 10; Wakefield 6 Halifax 18; backaeld stars Eddie Price and Waterloo 16. Leicester 13; Weston- Nationalist plane dropped three August 8: Since the occupation, ail Svoboda... bombs on ships awaiting repair more than 400,000 residents have

super-Mare

Nuneaton The following are the scores: Heriot's Furmer Pupus 11 Hawick this afternoon.

been evacuated from Shanghai to

Carroll, Wise 19, Milwaukee (3; Mithead High School Former Houses Taken Over the Interior, however, there are State Teachers 14: Tennessee Pupils 6 Watsonians 19: Saracens

650,000 paupers, 170,000 Communists took still July 5: over 5,147 houses in Shanghalwandering "rovers" and 100.000 State 19, Lincoln 6: Quincy 19. 12 Civil Service S; Maesteg 11

Eastern mois State 13: Oregon New Bridge 3--Reuter land-owners stili in that the refugee to date. They claim

Idaho O; Western Colorado war Shanghai. houses

owned by were

19, Southwest Oklahoma [State Government gate 45 BOTRA Tech 16: Whitworth 21, St. Mar- criminals and "ationalist

ships to the China Merchant's tin's O; Washington State 13, reactionaries. Jul 9: Communists have because they considered that these Montana 7 Washington & Jeffer nounced a 45 day paid childbirth ships really constituted "A shipp on 15, Denison 7: Lawrence 18, Unio, 23, vacation for working mothers. As is company which the American Grinnell 0; Milan,

Wichita 6; Dubuque 19, Buena of February 1, 1949, strength et Imperialists tried to impose the Chinese Communist party was

our inland navigation rights." Vista 10 Alcorn College 20, 3,000,000 official members.

They changed the English pames Cape Coral as Campbell 6; 13, Kansas July 9: More than 26,000 tons

August 9: More than 9,000 Ozarks.0; Prairie View 27, Sara of shipping left Shanghai during (This is an interesting, pro-June. Farmers are complaining private car owners have turned Ruston O nouncement.compared with the 15 local authorities that "middle-in their licences.

There branches of the Sine August 25 entry which record-men were making a profit out

Friendship Association

have

as is

money

011

sre mane-

6

Notre Dama with Emil Site Bride Northampton 19 United

the streets, as battle of the Bund 30: I went down to see- Folly understand the industrial owners turned in their licences session of the ball and them a Services 19.Bath 0: Exmouth 44

May to take over the city govern in a Royal

jeep. It turns 15 well as the economic policy of Navy ment Firmy troops entered muni-cut that

thaim

has the PLA cook, who cipal building at 9 ́s.m. All day been with them for more than Local papers are giving much

30 battle still raging.

Years, was all the time aspace to Tientsin programme of teaching more than 1,000 beggars Student handbills Communist spy. May 26: went

today. up

Departing June

The 5: Bank Managers met there to read and write. Nationalist garrison and local today at a tea party and they all, beggars are also employed dred- police thot 280 political pei-

custardry, took flowers ging rivers and in land reclama-

Communists told tion. soners, mostly students. Shops with ther

them not to waste and cinemas closed.

day of flowers, and ordered them to May 27: After one chased shans and cinemas, they dispose of the The Communists gave them plain water and small opened for business again. | Save

cakes, such as the rlec Trams are running, although the plain

coolies eat, for lunch. battle of Soochow Creek and the Bund goes on. American and British Consulates are cat off by American snipers in their area. dollars went high today. Last might oil and petrol on Klangwan

June 10: A Nationalist airfield exploded in a big blaze. plane which sunk a junk near

Army's Programme

Ningpo this morning killed 22 big news is the passengers. Liberation Army an- Today the eight-point programme which the nounced today that they would accept no Comfort Fund gifts, Liberation Army proclaimed.

would tolerate no victory cele 1. Lives and property will be protected regardless

brations, and would not requisi of strtus, religious belief or pro- tion rice Jessier

all

June 7: Local garrison issued another notice that all troops and cracials are barred from entering foreigners houses.

of the ships to Chinese. social

2. Protection is guaranteed to and industry, national firms

or privately owned,

Bandits Shot

profitably.

than

the

ON

New York, September 24. * Radio

Lowell commentator, Thomas, is improving from a serious injury sustained when he fell from herse high in the Himalayan mcntains, his SOD cabled from Thet today. Thomas injured his hip and thigh bone when he was thrown from the horse on a caravan trip from Tulls 27, Bowdoin 13: Massa-Tibet to India. He was carried chusetts 19, Bates 0: East for six days on a litter from the Stroudsburg Teachers 13, 2011- scene of the accident to the vil lervile Teachers Orf Southern lage of Grantee which has tele- University 41 Texas State O; gragh communications with the

outside world

Nearing The 4-Minute Mile

ed that more than £1,000,000 of manure, and were making it Soviet had been accepted from firms impossible for local potato opened for business today... 3. Bureaucratic capital, includ

railways.

1or the PLA Comfort Fund.) telephone ing ships,

Eruwers to raise their potatoes Gamblers Clean Up systems and offices, and all pro-

August 12; Ten convicted gam- perty of the bogus Nationalist

July 11: Shanghai bank direcblers were ordered to sweep the Government will be confiscated.

June 12: Coramunists paraded

today. streets today. gave up their cars All schools and universi- five bandits through the streets will now ride in communal buses. August 16: "Economic Weekly”) 4.

be opened and will this morning before they shot Newspapers announce that more today said that "Shanghai is to be ties will carty on under People's Libera them for raids they carried out

£3,000,000 goods, bound for

changed from a semi-colonial, tion Anny protectioni

disguised as Nationalists troops. Shanghai are piled up in Hong semi-feudal metropolis which de- (By HAROLD ABRAHAMS) 5. Except a

morning The Press said this arrant war criminals

pended on imperialism, and com all Nationalist officials, govern that the PLA has more than 50 Kong because of the blockade.

July 14: Without what

pradore's bureaucratic capital, to

* Thirteen years ago I watch- mant or municipal, will be ex- operational planes and 2,060 de

call "Bureaucratic

an independent and Soverign ed Jack Lovelock run the race empted from arrest so long as fected personnel Probably build-Communists they do not show armed revising up for overseas war against capitalists and speculators" the metropolis producing for domestic of his life when he won the tance or sabotage.

Formosa. On May 1, they an-Shanghai hotel business is going

and serving Chinese 1,500 metres at the Olympic Whlie 7.

feudalistic nounced that the Communist navy pot.

Games in Berlin people. July 15: American Embassy

August 18: More than 80 shop -ownership ef-land-in-rural-had-56-vessels. Today, PLA ad

arcas is irrational and should vertised in newspapers for the re-plane was ordered to leave owners who were convicted of tax

China, Le abolished, proper steps and gistration of all Nationalist Naval

taken Personnel.

July 19: Monthly salary of the evasion, were sentenced to several pi éparations aherd of time towards its BOTRA reports that 18 of their General Manager of the Bank of abofition This will be with ships were sank, 18 were miss-China is 320 Parity Units, or less than four times more than the reduction of land

rent

and one was burned. interest with

June 14: One American and one lowest paid coolie employed by eventually we can implement British Shanghai River plot the bank

July 26: Buddhist monks land redistribution. It is only

only volunteered to Sweep mined after a comparatively long period Channel at a special meeting of the Bubbling. Well temple were ordered to become productive to- from the arrival of the PLA the MCC today. that it may be possible to work More than 250 Communist ad-day, and have set out to make

the

t

be

view

and that

but more

to

markets,

weeks of "re-education classes."

Angust 19: Government orders that all firms kast send out their bills in Chinese.

His time was a new world re- cord of 3 min. 47.8. recs.

Since that Augus: afternoon nine men have beaten Lovelock's time, and the world record now stands at 3 min 43 sec.

Recently, four men have done

than August 23: Goverment has better 3 min 47 see WIL accepted 429 student volunteers to Sykhuis (Netherlands), Gaston go to North and North East Reiff, of Belgium, and the Swedes, China and carry on cultural Stand and Landgrist

Reiff (who won the 5,000 Angust 251.Government, an- metres, at the 1948 Games) met and educational work" out a thorough solution to the ministrators have entered Shang-From today, all letters must be tionalist troops, who were cap recent match between their two nounced today that 10,606 Na-Slykbuls over 1,500 metres in the

land problem.

hal so far. About a dozen of them

addressed in Chinese. Russian trained,

trred during Shanghai battle, had countries. (Point seven is one of the first are

July 28: More than 70 per been re-educated and more statements that the Communists Bussian trained men are expect-

cent of Shanghai jewellery shops than 60,000 Nationalist troops are departing from Immediate ed to arrive later this week

**Reiff-was-fresh from:his new.

·world -record for 2,000 metres, gracian ret

Ninety per cent of the local have changed to selling all would be returned to reform.)

sach 2:5 towels,

In which hà“best "eight minutes 8. Lives and property of for- Nationalist officials have remain-necessaries"

is It lages for production went vi eign nationals will be pro-ed, but all of them have been all part of the programme" 26 Fund has collected more that

medicines, underwear etc.

Communist troops Comfort {and Nurmi's beat time for the Zected, but they are warned to gives a brief screening, and change Shanghai from a

distance was & min. 204 sec.). obey ardere and

£1,000,000-Trom both foreign, and from indoctrination course for

two

to a productive domestic business during the last

From the start-Stykkis took spying, "sabotage.

sumptive city and assisting or weeks before they resume their

the first 450 Harbouring anti-revolutionary duties. Some of the best indoc-city"

-two months.

the lead, covering war criminals.

trinators are girls between 16 and August 1: This is the birthday.

'Not bad, considering that they metres in 58 sec800 metres in:1 The Shanghai government was

as of the PLA Mayer Chen Yi

formally made the announcement min. $5 sec. and 1.200 metres. taken over by City Security Maine 20, who give, lectures, act

and organise de said in speech today that the that they would sccept no com which is some seven gards shtet cheerleaders tedance Cou

net patced by Wa Couneli

whole country would be liberaled tributions to their Comfort of three-quarters id-z-mile, in 2 monstrations.

min. 50 sec And Wooderson's Yen, and the formally in-

was

The official explanation reads: within 1949. Since the libera

200 ot the 668 major augurated in the Seventh Heaven. In principal, all courses are aim- tion,

August 26: Another 14 restar- British record for three-quarters was to rested otherwiched at reforming thoughts and restaurants have closed down antz made application to close of a mulle 2 min -593 secr

because ideas and a system of democratic Dec

"bureaucrats

and today. No holiday on Confucius undered the population to carry discussion will be adopted to de- speculators" have ieft. First birthday. Damned glad to be

speculators rounded up on June leaving this place. Kore than 300 truckloads off velop this way of thinking".

June 17: Communists have 10 had sentences announced to- Announced their wages theory, day, Four received four to eight

retrain

restaurant yesterday.

act

ch as before and belave.

new garrison command troops). arrived to take over their jobs

complete with their own : supply Send flood: sections,

the

this afternoon. They arrived They claim that all government months gaol. 14 received heavy and municipal employees of all fines; five got 10 to 15 days at classes of the government will hard labour and had to publicly be paid the zime, the mana-pblish their repentance in the gers and executives, except that Dewspapers. the manager and executives

Civilian Gasualties

· May 28: British and Americais | Consulates "liberaved" "Every« | thing" normal' on 'Bund, where Aghing has "bett, going on for past two days. Batiks and busi-

VANITY SETS Lovely glam vanity sets and fiquor, sets just unpacked., Wonderful for wedding for

birthday gifts. Miniftre Vanity seis perfume botting, and powder jars old separately,

*All at attractive low prices.

See our counter displays.

BIKINI STILL

Seems Incredible

This speed in the early part of a race seems incredible, and there can be little doubt that had Sty khuis run at a more, even pace. he would have bettered the world record for the full distance.

with Lovelock's win at Berlin reveals that Sly khuis was 54 sec. faster over the The Pacific atoll of Bikini i first 400 metres, 104 sec. faster

August 2: Tientsin beggar RADIO-ACTIVE

will receive priveleges such as have been reported in local news- accommodations, cary and papers to have been able to sup

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Washington, September 24.

Comparison

1200 metres...

In other words, he would have been over 70 yards ahead (in theory) with $50 metres to go: but Lavelock-wbird have cut down this fead the oder 40 yards over Usat last 200 metres.

who will receive the port themselves and even "still radio-active three years after over 300 metres and approximate

pocket money" the managers some

PLA the atomic bomb tests carried out by the same degree faster over same salaries, RE

strength on August 1st was there by the United States and executives Heavy workers will receive anounced at 4,000,000,

No one knows if the natives Amethyst Escape "big table food ration, and light

will be able to return to the atoll, will receive a “small

August*~3: Uproar over Recording to the first joint report workers table" food. ration.

Amethyst escape,

Communist of the United States Atomic fine Amethyst Blew up By Commissione and the University Producers' Profits

Washington fated today,

Applied Fisheries Klang Ling with great-loss or ot Producers will receive a 20 per

Iffè. There WEB well Laboratory

It is shit too early to determine cent proat from the Government,

organised “spontaneous parade

Par whether men san however, foreign companies here expect that for all time their pro his will be kept inside Chirs, and in People's Cu

Currency. An American had to American's dog bit the

to a pedicat boy today, The THE EVERGREEN as the American as riding in

200, Nathan Road, Kowiport.” Tel"59042

boy

twide

the pedicab. He has been onicred

to apologize to the boy, and pay

his maintenance while the boy is under-médical treatment.

down to meet the passengers without harm ca istabu,ubsist Eneticparat running, is the 3

from

the sel of perfection, but a study of

off the Klang Ling. Organisers on where the bomb was ex foran singgests that the thing to apparently forgot to Informoon -

ploded, the report

the passengers that the Klang

the race should be faster than tise Ling was sunk by Amethyst Despite the fact that half the 3.k-hat the latter part of In the windswept? WALL placed every :28

Lagoon earlier park Eecause all the passengers im, was

days, Indio mediately threw cold water on activity, has not been removed Slykhois's final time af A the reception by claiming that from the lagoon by dilution to the sterdan 3 min. 13.8 sec. 11 the - Kiang Ling was sunk by Come extent which might have been third fastest lever, and, about the

minnist ¿gear.

expected, the report added equivalent;pl/-4 taka, Foreign population drew big Reuter.

the mile,

The United States Air Force is making plans to pick him up after he has reached India, ac-

cording to Thomas' office in New York United Press.

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