European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Friday May 18, pies still plague peasants of China 1. J Toal p v " a Jet Gantt brought misery to China s i m.t11s. Jul 1 guess Aye Orcen ures Cuns to the chinese peasants with the tenacity of leeches they Are a Hie hunger an malnutrition a be audit Yed they stride onto1 the ravaged land in the Wake of droughts which leave Juie Earth to and "blistered., " of floods it with a Muddy " sea of locusts blackening he sky land of main s unending wars which desolate the Rich countrywide., Jin the not sodigtantt1prst, my Lions a of Bliese died lingering path wracked deaths because when and its crops there we no communication system touring them Relief supplies in time. Floods drought locus s and communist mismanagement have a. Chinat r a flow drought today is menacing the Rice crop in South China s Kwang a province. The past two years natural calamities have sent the chinese peasant reeling backward blast ing his Hopes for the Good harvests he needs to keep himself alive. And which the red regime needs to survive. Nearly every province in red China has Felt the searing heat of drought. Red China s wheat Belt Kong Kong Goveri Menf has announced it is building a new wire barricade across the. Entire Hong Kong red China Border in an Effort to Stop the e influx of refugees who have. Beeri coming across at Trale of 3,000 a night. The higher deeper barricade will re place a Fence that is Flimsy in Many areas of the Border and which has been repeatedly reached Aby refugees daring the past three week Western experts on China have been baffled by the1 switch in re China a policy on escapees. Only a few weeks ,ago4 Corti a unlit Border patrols were using sons a Ajtal fleeing refugees. Recently they began not. Only Matt Rig Jho attempt to Stop the thousand web Cross Hong Kong s Border in Lemming ilk Waves every night but act ally told the would escapees where and when to " attempts. Re -1 Fen who have the Job of assess ing Tedschi Nwafor their t govern me note Are probing three primary Lini in _ t to the communist authorities in South China have temporarily log patrol or fhe Rural Popula Tion and the Perry tote to escapes p safely valve to pre vent mass uprisings cheap be cause the communists Toni by conv Kong is Miqu Tetty determined to in the refugees to red China As to a Are rounded up c ,.it1 the Yariger of famine a South China this summer is much Mote acute Wharff heretofore realized and hat to reds either to Etc i lip aft least a few hungry the Hong Kong Border patrols or. Believe they will Havel a he1luhgkiahg Thailand Philippines Lio Pef Hon Ait Shantung and Shenski provinces to Tiff 4fered the least 20 of the country i provinces have fett these either of drought or floods Lions of tons of water Deal crops in South China s popu Kiangtung province manc i Hei Yungkiang and Shantung inces. V the starvation which in the would have automatically of these natural catastrophes 1parently does not exist Oil Mainland. A network of rail canals roads and airlines _ the vast country helps bring i goods to the stricken areas. But famine s ugly Sisters and malnutrition Are a Correl in Hie actor n to every where i c the overworked chinese hons to whom want and scare almost reduced to a diet of be 1,800 and 1,950 calories a Day a below the minimal Standard none too Rich Asia. In Shanghai families Hack last bit of Oil from their Butler Chance to handle the Poa Tsyn in a famine crisis if the people know they can t find Refuge in Hong King _ " i Julie communists Are we " Iti Ailand legendary Siam buddhism elephants plates. And one Junior commit nest official who escaped to Hong Kong reports you be got to steam to stay alive in communist Chen beriberi peripheral edema night blindness and liver disorders Al products of malnutrition Are wide spread. Alt reports indicate that Isi Farmer now being urged to a i double his efforts toward obtains ing Good harvests is better than the proletariat of the he gets More food More goods and can of keep the f grows in private plots of land but hunger is sapping the nation s Energy. It weakens the 1% Tim and knocks out his will to a Sist. /. Perhaps for this reason andtfte., cause red Leader Mao Tze Tung a insured the loyalty of his two Pii by giving them More generous Foj top rations there Are no confirmed reports of major uprisings against the red in january of this year Arri div from the Mainland said that Fott authorities have called for vigilance against sabotage and subversion. 3 be it to Embarrass the government in Hong Kong i Bentely trying to discourage the people of re China from a Evn the the democratic governments Are interested in Ihei welfare of i Thailand where . Marines landed thursday is the legendary slam land of gilded elephants and thousands of Buddhist temples. R a next door neighbor to Laos which is being overrun by communist forces Thailand is a staunchly anti communist country whose Amer can born jazz Loving King Adun det thu Siphon plays the saxophone. Its. Pro Western government is headed by a Strong Man Premier Sarit thanarat. By United press International fast v to l seconds wednesday you could a t r11101 of Natrona Fforest All to s All Over now a Al. Fes Nomen came at about 4 30 . Not. The Commerce Cowrt mint Popini Lauon clock showed there were 186,160,311 Anier can that s the exact number on acres in the Nahon s National ores so aria pc showed an increase of one Cruz in 11 acc ones later.-3% me let would have had to share ills acre or everyone would Heftye lost a Fracyon of Jils acre i r 1 to bib event with mixed emotions spokesman will each person have an acre ass of from new on out tie fraction of in acre will grow smaller. " 1 t thanarat a Field marshal and supreme commander of thai armed forces when he seized Power in 1958, has a 120,000-Man army to defend the nation. He has carried out repealed crackdowns against communists inside Thailand. 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