CANTON PRISONS FULL; REDS DRIVING WEDGE BETWEEN BRITAIN, US

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 648
• Publication Date: October 25, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
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COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Political; Sociological
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CANTON PRISONS FULL;
REDS DRIVING WEDGE BETWEEN BRITAIN, US
PRISONERS NUMBER 8,000-9,000 -- Hong Kong Shih-pao, 5 Sep 50
It is learned from Communist sources that inmates in various prisons in
Canton now number 8,000-9,000, This does not include those who are released
on bail or sent to open up new land, or prisoners who are hidded away. Places
of detention are crowded.
HONG KONG CADRES AGITATE AGAINST BRITISH -- Hong Kong Shih-pao, 5 Sep 50
Meetings are being continually held in Canton, in which cadres foment
anti-British Peelings. 01d scores are brought up from the limbo of the~?~9th
century and. students propagandize in squads against the misdeeds of "British
imperialism." ' The motive is to express displeasure at British troops being
sent to fight the Reds in Korea, and ~ventusll~] to drive a wedge between US
and British policy toward China which is now beginning to converge.
To increase their numbers, the Communists are forming bands of Communist
Youth and Pioneers all over South China. The former have enrolled 70,000 and
the latter~110,000.
Culture and education offices throughout Canton have been ordered to form
children's singing groups ("little devil" bands) who are to gather each evening
from 1900 to 2100 hours to learn "liberation songs" and "yang-ko dances.' `Ages
are from 12 to 18. These are the precursors of the young people's bands ordered
by the Central government for every area.
The Chu Chiang Party Committee has determined to train 1,000 boys?and girls
as young cadres, or little devils, and has ordered party locals to select prom-
ising boys and girls from the elementary schools, ages 12-15, and send them to
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Shih-ch'i for transfer to a training center. Training will include the sub-
~ects used for developing special agents, such as spy work, using light weap-
ons, etce They will be trained for a year, then assigned to different spots
for the express purpose of ferreting out "reactionary" thoughts, movements
of guerrillas, behavior of Red cadres, etc.
People in the Chu Chiang region are greatly displeased with this. scheme of
the Conmlunists for selecting and training their children (and those selected
have to go), since it interrupts their regular education. Parents are dis-
turbed and are withdrawing their children from school, to be sent. elsewhere.
Party secretary Yang K?ang-hus is in charge of the training.
COMPULSOF.Y EDUCATION IN KWANGTUNG -- Hong Kong Shih-pao, 8 Sep 50
Not long ago the culture and education office in Chung-shah called e
meeting of school principals, at which it was decided to emphasize teachers'
"political study." The conference voted to carry out the Central and South
China Education Department's directive for compulsory education. Next term
there is to be "anti-feudal education" and "land-reform study," as preparation
for nrovaaanda work and for er~orcing a political creed, so that during school
age students will be limited in t_he development of their political conscious-
ness. '
The con`.~rence also voted to centralize the control of all school property
in the hsien. School funds are not, in principle, to be controlled, but 30 per-
cent of. said funds must be put into a common pool, for centralized distribution.
Communists get control of school money so as to be able to enforce their compul-
sory education.
FRAUDULENT EUYING P_NGERS PE_9SANTS -- Hong Kong Shih-pao, 1 Sep 50
The Central Kwangtung Trading Company fixed prices for the buying of rice
from peasants, but when a buying team came into a certain district of En-p'ing
Hsine, they offered much lower prices, and the ignorant peasants sold; this
lowered the price also in En-ping. To the complaints of peasants, the Central
K~angtung Trading Company paid no attention, although higher prices were being
paid in an adjoining heien.
Moreover, in En-p'ing the company would buy only 20 percent of the grain
z~railable; after this, unscrupulous merchants would come in and buy up the
"re,jects" at further depressed prices, thus causing further lose to the pesa-
ants. Seeing the treatment the company had given them, the angry peasants con-
cluded that the Communists cared nothing about alleviating the hard life of
the rural classes, and that such slogans as "an overturn for the poor " are a
pert of a policy of fraudulent enticement.
CANTQN LIVING COSTS RISE -- Hong Kong Shih-pao, 1 Sep 50
Since the Communists early in August lowered the exchange rate on all for-
eign.currency, Canton residents who depend on remittances from Hong Kong, Macao,
or foreign countries have felt the pinch of increased living costs, or less re-
sources on which to live. Since the rate was changed, a given sum yields much'
less in local currency, while local prices have not followed suit in dropping,
and some have even risen. For instance, while a small family heretofore could
live on 200 Hong Kong dollars per month, now it takes 250-300. Families who have
returned from Hong Kong and Macao to live in Canton now feel the same hardship's
they experienced in those ports.
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