CONTINUATIOIN OF LIBERALISM AND ANARCHISM IN SIAN (SHENSI)

Created: 7/24/1968

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SUBJECT: CONTINUATION OF LIBERALISM AND ANARCHISM IN SIAN (SHEMSI),

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SUMMARY: LIBERALISM AND ANARCHISM CONTINUE TO PREVAIL IN

SIAN, SKESSI,ERIOUS FACTIONAL CLASH FLARED UP ONAY IN TKE SIAN RAILWAY BUREAU. ESULT. TRAINWAS DISRUPTED FOR TWO DAYS AND RESUMED ONLYIRECT ORDER CAME FROM THE CENTRAL AUTHORITIES. COMMODITIES IN THE MARKET REMAIN SCARCE, AND ALMOST ALL DAILY NECESSITIES HAVE SEEN SUBJECTED TO STRICT RATIONING, WHEAT FLOUR HAS RECENTLY BEEN OUT OF STOCK, AND RICE HAS BEEN UNOBTAINABLE SINCE 0CT02ER THOUGH ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY HAS BEEN RESTORED, FACTORY PRODUCTION HAS NOT BEEN RESUMED; WORKERS ARE DIVIDED IN VIEWS AND SLOPPY IN DISCIPLINE. SPHAftY.

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2. THE PRESENT SITUATION in sian is about THE same THE VIOLENT STRUGGLE

not DIMINISHED ih INTENSITY; on the CONTRARY,ERIOUSCLASH FLARED up ONAY in THE sian RAILWAY BUREAU, ANO CONSEQUENTLY ALL TRAINS CAMETANDSTILL. trainWERE RESUMED ONLYIRECT order HAD BEEN RECEIVED tuo DAYS LATER FROM the CENTRAL AUTHORITIES. TKE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DAMAGES INCURRED BYRAVE INCIDENT in SIAN, which is the PIVOT OF TWO VASTHE NORTHWESyAND THEAN WELL be IMAGINED.

COMMODITIES IN THE MARKET HAS not BEEN RELIEVED. TKE ONLY CHANGE IS that, BEGINNING FROM JUNE, CERTAIN INDUS-TRilL ARTICLES SUCH as BICYCLES, WATCHES AND SEWING MACHINES ARE SUPPLIED AGAINST 'INDUSTRIAL COUPONS;' AND DAILY NECESSITIES

such as CIGARETTES, SOAP, SOYSAUCE, VINEGArAnD MATCHES ARE

SUPPLIED STRICTLYATION

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