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(By Fred Hampson):
The Chinese Communists are racing with time as the chill blasts of their first Winter in power sweep over China,
They are racing to get their police State: type of control consolidated and to end the civil war before internal opposition to their regime stiffens.
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The laws of economics began to catch up with the Reds early the Na- in the autumn. Like tionalists, they simply spent more
taxes increased money than they could afford to
They *pend.
and in steeply, both in money kind, but my guess today is that they
spending somewhere between one half and two-thirds more than they earn.
Blart So
had to they have pull | printing money.
When the Communists entered dollar Shanghai Inst May, their was quoted as 300 to one Ameri- can dollar. When I left Shang- bai on December 9, one Ameri- con dollar fetched 16,500 Commu- nist dollars and you could get a lot more on the black market if you had contact or two. It was
“War crimes evidence suppressed''
Moscow, Desember 27. "Pravda," the Boviet Com- munist Party paper, today accused the United Statek of holding back evidence of da paneed atrocities during the
war crimes triala Tokyo war tighten the burden of guilt."
The paper panero planned to use shalts loaded with infected floss and bacteria which they had al- ready tried out againat, the Chinese, but "the Bovlat Union delivered a knock-out to the Japanese aggres-
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"Pravda" was commenting an the trial of 12 Japanese germ warfare exports which began on Christmas Day ba forea Russian Military Court In the Uson. Manchurian border town of Khabarovsk. --Reuter.
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reorganisation have Imposed upon them the same burdens that crushed the Kuo- mintang enemies.
Inflation
again. Price controls have broken down. Discontent is widespread in both cities and countryside Unem- playment is at dangerously high levels and is beginning
Worried farmers down wagen have been selling fee they or - dinarily stockpile against the off I season because they are afraid of by the commandeerin military
and Tuxes
high getting higher.
There are reports nirendy food shortages in some disirtein, but the entroiled Press and the limitations of travel make it in-
Back in 1947 you could safely possible for an impartial obser
Arranzt by Betly Drown, facts about count on the Chinese dollar losing to get the real
There is suti 100 per cent of its value every 60 food or fuck of it
days. If it was quoted at 20,000 enough food in the cities
New
for example, The CommuARİNİN
China to ane on May 1, News Agency, in a despatch from you could depend on it being at June 1 ienst 40,000 to one by Peking on Decemale 4, odaitteet The Reds were in serious crops) = And we thought that was swift The Communist dollar Lufation. It'
foster than was dropping a lot
left Shanghai on that when I December 9, My guess then was that it would be about 30,000 to
ver
difficulties
ohybously The despatels, which came from high quarters, warned that price increases in 1949 were mevitable and that the scation would get worse in 1950. which was described as "a erucial yea That 1950. the despatch more, wastlet see a balancing of the budget anal The beginning of proKI VAN
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The despatch continued with a statement of the Bed leadry. Mus Tse-tung "Our situation can be There we Reneralised as follows
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In contrast to the free-whreling
the of
Comment propagatin Press, while is blithely insists that all is well, Mao's statement is an starting warning
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Price units Communist losing valus so fast that prices no longer are quoted in dollars and conts. They are quoted in various price units. When you pay your rent, for example, the rent price unit is multiplied by the exchange rate of the day which the landlord himself wate --and that's your bill.
The Reds managed to control the rice price-vital
10.1 the thik ke Ailer Jekker.
Beer"==Ą of 10.80 Thursday
Continuous
estimate of the percentage Chinese who favour the filed re- gime. Outside, of Party members themselves, the answers
ranged from 60 to 00 per cent against the Reds.
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Very few soem to have any faith in the future under thu Reds. These are the people who | 11,39-Close Down. felt that the Kuomintang Gov- ernment had corrupted and crum- bied into uselessness
who 'and hoped the Reds would bring new vitality and
They seem to hope have lost hope quickly-perhaps too quickly--but they don't like the Red programme of stifling commerce, aftonating the Western nations, regimenting the peasants and workers and launching on a Bocial and industrial programme which they don't think can ever be achieved and which they don't think China is equipped for.
One Chinese said. "They want to throw away what little pro- gross we've made to try for (3
dream that's too big for us." cominoully
have the Would they rather old Kuomintang Government them hesitate or back? Most over that one but quite a number
of China-during most of the
the autumn by dumping rice in vities everytime the price jumped. was becoming apparent late in
"At least I could make a living under the KMT, not a very good living but a living."-Associated Press.
since Shanghai fell to Chen Yi's November that they wore strip answered like this: troope in the last days of Maying the countryside to hold the It seems to me that the Reds
ne In the cities. The farmers who have had a terrific struggle themselves alded In his pro trying to control the economic
voluntarily. The rea- situation in the Lower Yangtae,arate
attempting to hold fur this seemed to be fear by the former of further com- power in spite of carly reverses
Inundeering by the military. The in two ways:
nation-wide farmers were retalaing no Bur
pluses on the farms. It appears population the farmers preferred to sell thetr entire rup and buy back what they need rather than leave it where the armies might get it.
t. By intensive, Indoctrination and by trying to sceptical
Vonvince E
that the present troubles merely are growing pains to greatness,
2. By direct military force at donger points.
Reports from Canton
The Communist authorities at Canton have ordered Individuals not to store more than a month's In early December the Commu- supply of rice. The order affects
that announced
the the entire Kwangtung Province.
There is no inmediate danger ist Press
facilitate Persons
be
of o major uprising against the foodstuffs which the Red armies! It has been made to Reds. simply because there is no had "borrowed" from the farmers rice supplies to cities... possible way for the opposition to during the crossing of the Yang-found guilty of hoarding more
will than a month's needs them. These would not all be paid back. consolidate against
i was explained that some of penalised and the surplus rice Party has or is permeating every
food loans came from confiscated. phase of Chinese life to organise these
"hoarders"in brief, that these and to watch.
largely carro from
The danger to the Red regime food loats lies rather in the steady pressures bourgeois who have no right to
of
over-
of an unhappy people, the resist-expect repayment. It looked very much as though the Reds simply ence and the despair
too didn't have the food to pay back, burdened peasants who aro
Chat matter-ruther than short of food to take the
long For view, the upposition
labour repaying any food loans, they are which is tired of promises and pushing a taxation in kind pro- pay envelopes which alreadygramme in the countrysides try- won't stretch for enough.
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