Heze

The army under Prince Sengalintsin, a famous Manchu general, was surrounded at Hotse in southwestern Shantung, and its supplies were cut off.

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The official New China News Agency said that five hours after the quake 30 people in Heze and Dongming Counties in Shandong had been reported dead. Several thousand houses in Heze County were destroyed, the agency said. Authorities in Heze County, on the border between Anhui and Shandong Provinces, said that casualty reports were sketchy but that one death and up to 100 injuries had been recorded in their area. The quake jolted most residents from their beds. Nearly everyone was asleep, said Li Jimin, a government official in Heze, 400 miles south of Peking.

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First, Communist rule had already proved unhealthy for certain kinds of businessmen in the liberated areas due to the ban on trade in many types of non-essential consumer items. We have already noted the resentment this caused among merchants in and around the town of Hotse, Shantung, even though the Communists were trying to be “especially polite” to the business community there.

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At the same time, heavy rain in Shandong province's Heze county meant chaos for railway timetables, including the Beijing-Kowloon line.

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