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Many of the countries which have måde barter trade agreements with the Soviet Union and its satellites have fared badly under the system, writes Maurice Manning
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, – 1956.
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CONTINUING HIS REPORT ON SINKIANG. RUSSELL SPURR TELLS HOW 200,000
CHINESE COMMUNIST SOLDIERS-TURNED - FARMERS TRANSFORMED A DESERT
SWORDS INTO SOCIALIST
G
PLOUGHSHARES
ENERAL Tao She- munist forces in September were vastly mistakes and bolter from the Ministry of War. Soon 100,000-spindle textir mál near chaperoned, for the Communists
yno has
surrendered
come
રામ
a 1919.
disappointments. long way since he
Today the Construction Corps Gentral Tao got his re-
operates 30 Carins. Their cut- the ward. He was permitted to tvated acreage expanded Kuomintang garrisons in keep his rank, promoted from 140,000 in 1850 10 400,000. Sinking. He signed away doputy commander of the More than 800 tractors are em
about half as many as ployed. 60,000 men without firing a People's Liberation Army the rest of China. The pet pro- shot; even sent them out in Sinking. Then he was it of 10.850.000 yuan lest your unarmed into the streets to given one of the biggest is expected to be doubled. Esti-
the arriving Com- jobs in China-command of
mated cotton milpol will 15,040,000 pounds, less sced: the PLA Regional Produc- husked maize, 42,150,000 pounda. tion
Construction Corps.
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half a dozen more encampments by. Work has already started on had sprung
have a paritag horton of sexual up in the desert, a sugar mill to process the beets heetee. But the girls are free to Someone in Peking had sensed the mamy farms Rev 25 a side- marry and the germ of a great idea.
star It's all quite A line.
revolutunary netwerk of real Socialiai farms
for China, Men The atmosphere is still regs don't laurily the develop
biggest
of and mental.
marry out despite an
influx
of the provinces. nost backward region of China. civilian farmers from
Yet bere are the cust. the soldiers. A comradeship of labour, neatly Maps and
molly fromn the cover arranged
graph
The Northwest, marrying girls whe fashion, hendquni ters bullding. An arm- speak In Marxist with each man graded and
empletely different 10 cd guard stands outside the dialect. warded according to his effort,
mmand post. Why not? Some Girls 1:1istics
tually art
marry Mill military either. Regiments turned 40 The
m their own, 10 matter eta Cha Nallees warn what soil all over Sinklung. They
laws the government may of the their
commanders-now saboteurs.
dangers of spies and 14159 to improve their manager 9. Their officers “department administra- The enlisted ranks went
Something New Kept
and
over
"farm
were lors.
from
"work-squad leaders"
new
The 23rd Regiment today has 18 heavy Soviet tractors, 11 combined harvesters and its first It has automatic eatton-picker. fashioned 12,000 fruitful acres
the desert:
expects
Free To Marry
regimen:
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don't
They leave such important inatlers do the beter Judgment of their parents. Yet here they are, freely signing the marriage contract before the regimental has commissar in a way that would
have horrified the mothers.
Thus a regiment of one-time running dogs wreaks its own agricultural, social revolution in
fer-thing corner of China. proudly displays maize and cof- to roads and buildings where formerly there was
was nothing. stis paklern of development that will one day engulf the whole of rural China, Mere than 500,000,000 peasants, now plodding
swell. to 5.013, including married families. But a problem Pas arisen there, that even phun- lag has so far falled to solve. Two thirds of the men are un- mar married. They have elected to remain in Sinklang-though not as buchelers, Brides aren't avail- able in the wilderness; there are Sinklang even orders against marrying
offending lics.
women
Muslim
for fear
susceptibili-
with varying
It
enthus-
The people of Sinkiang have to thank the Comi-
HE military farmers have in THE munist soldiers for
Ve years due "eld labourers, 6th class," En- than ending an unpopular 10,500 meres of irrigation gineers were sent to join them, THE cri warlord regime. The libera- chants, buik. eight reservoira 10 eut irrigation canals und tors have wrought great
and 2.695.000 square metres of hustle
buildings. works of reconstruction. All buddings. They have erected Specialists from East China were three colleges, 10 primary flown in to supervise affuresta- the new factory and ad-
schools in their farm areas. And tion, livestock rearing and dairy ministrative buildings in the planted 133,000,000 trees.
farming. At last came Lilov. region have been built over By 1960, their cultivation will the burly Russian cotton farmer
to a total
of who showed the soldiers how to the past six years by the have extended 1,800,000 acres.
Cotton output quadruple production, PLA. Its Construction Corps
be around 110,000,000 is now the single biggest
unds.
maize 250,000,000 pounds. They will working unit in China,
General Tao commands employ double the workers, re- and 200,000 men, He operates cruited from East China,
"it's up to the government to las towards Socialism, will find over 2,000 tractors.
regiments, from one of the biggest The 23rd Regiment was
settle the question," the colonel clusters et colt grey buildings. one druple acreage by 1960, Then told me.
He spoke more firmly with pep talks blaring from the buildings in Urumchi. His of the ploncers. It found itself it will have at least 60 tractors, then at any time in our talk, loudspeakers and posters headquarters staff is 500 marching in columa with seven
Iris 30 combines and a dozen cotton- Eren
commissur nodded rouncing KMT regi-
the monthly norm. other surrendered strong. The military pattern ments down the dusty highwan ing into
pickers. The railway now creep- agreement,
They, too, will be units of pre- Sinklang will Urumchi persists there, though in westwards
have Unmarried girls are now being dueticn. Ike the men of the the farm-the now ecruited in overcrowded Honan 23rd, Everyone theory his workers are all January 1950
sowing and reaping now reached
through province to work on the farms. mechanically 05 uni- track will go straight
machine- demobilised. Whole
wore padded Communit regi- ware
ilk land-and There'll be They are all volunteers, closely bound proletariat. ments have now removed forms and fur caps. It was bit- terly cold. But everyone had at their badges, but retained least been fed, which was equivalent civilian ranks novel experience after serving And officers that fit neatly in with Com- the Nationalists. munist ideas of mass organi-
regularly doled out the monthly That was something new sation.
Chief Task
pay.
100
from
The column halted 150 kilo- metres from Urumchi. Two regi- ments of Communist regulars had pitched tents in the middle
<hemselves in
on-
WHAT'S STIRRING IN BRITAIN. By JOHN MCKENNA
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MUCH FLUTTERING IN THE BIRMINGHAM DOVECOTES
THE chief task of the Con- of a waste, of gravel. Tree and grass had long given up trying struction Corps has to grow there: gule strength always been farming. The winds knifed out of the snow-
covered mountains a few kilo-THERE 200,000 Communist troops
metres away. Howling wolt who poured into Sinkiang packs nosed near at night. soon overburdened the
region's resources. Rebellion Self-Criticism
and banditry had sharply reduced food supplies. There was scarcely enough to feed the inhabitants.
"THERE, were many difcul- „ics," the colonej, told me, wirm I Crave out to visit, his At the beginning of 1950, most farm. "The ground was too of the surrendered KMT roops hard to dig. We didn't know and half the PLA were put to how to buik," productive work. Most of them were sent on to the land. “They The ion regiments set up 'ten peasants this was the farms around the stony Manass work they know. But I was River. The first year their at- cruelly hard at first in pn in- tempts were pitiful They could hospitable land.
The areas hardly, feed, themselves.
were
ono lived there. Wolves. roamed":
And the cineina managements
Tagitated uttering in soon as her name is posted for thought be curcan manager
Was much number of objectlens made
application.
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"Rock 'n Roll" was replaced called "Gun Fury." by Alm Ery
Guns, the management rearoned, provoking than
the Birmingham Stock Ex-
rising temperature The change. A womn had
Alde the Exchange indienics that dared to apply for member- there might be several. ship.
Stock
exchanges,
just MIGHTIER THAN THE GUN about the sole remaining Ɗock ʼn Roll" саме to preserve. of professional London liko some ancient masculinity, have been and, retribution of the Greek gods. grim-faced brokers declare, Madness spread rapkily in its always will be, untainted by féminine perfume.
,
were modern jazz.
to
Why should · "Rock'n' Roll", upset the Capital of Empl??
Mainly perhaps because there is genuine "last generation" ot' adclescents who somehow have never found their pines in wake.
acelety, or found a scalo of On a quiet Sunday afternoon, values with which to create a Lost but deter- the art cinema to show the new place.
Scom
to have But there is nothing in new wonder opened to a packed mined, they
house. In mid-show, youths in strung together a strange mix- They the Birmingham rules for Edwardian suits suddenly proacture
of Edwardian clothes, chosen for agricultural deve- iried to raise cotton, though the bidding the entry of women. from their seats and began to American: ihology, and morala lopment were mainly desert. No locals declared it could never be in fact, nobody, for an in- emulate the
goings-on on the of the ancient outlaw gangs, Tien Shan
Right end wrong seem grown north of the freely in the winter,
nter, searching mouniaina. The locals seemed stant ever dreamed of the screen.
direct meaning: what The manager. the scrub and frozen riverbanks right: the cotton failed. female cheeky enough to enough, regarded himselt ny
who, rightly have no
partly Is good is
what they think for food. There were no trees, There were orgies
of self- apply
provkler rather than a recipient is the newest and best Ameri- houses. ronds, no
The criticism,
spirit-raising of
ran and partly what
will singto But it happened. And Mrs of entertainment, came to ask: soldiers find to rough It in tents speeches. Patriotic songs quaver Neillo for the first 12 months.
them out put them in the Neale, of Handsworth, them to return to their stats. ed into the svinter wind,
and make them 5: woman, and typically
has con-
Whereupon he was ret about spotlight Timber was tugged 50 kilo- talks restored the weary
heroes in tho
oyes of their moires from the mountains by intoxicated the unticed. It was temptuously swept aside all with razors handcart. Bricks were baked just
te the Liberation
The provinces took the now friends war male prejudlees and demanded
cinema or cut- Rioting in a comission. She is employed by phenomenon with their. always successfully, in most
had
well established Birmingham tomary very British if some ting up on old lady with razors makeshift kilns. Walls were con- never fought; only now the
what unenterprising aplomb. achieve much the same result structed by men, who had
over seen
brate was tho unyielding soll, firm
Toll, comrades,
ller application is under con Nothing happened Signethily, It appears that ogainst trowal, Irrigation ditches were partallam.” Even the oldest akteration, hacked out by hand, the rock cliches got reburnished, trying to Before taking the usual ballot, booked for another Sunday in of the lot. and gravel cloured from the soil, coax Alfo from a sea of grave the committon consulting the south London cinemas, The But somebody will have Framing, methods wero adapted Someone in-Peking ww what to the gaunt conditiona. There was going on. Orders
no
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