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Peking Orders Manual Labour
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) HONG KONG, September 12. Teen-age Red Guards have been sent to “wallow in the mud” of manual labour and told not to fall in love and marry early. Peking Radio said yesterday that 20,000 students had been moved from the capital to the villages “to stay for ever” hundreds or thousands of miles away from home. They were told to “plant red flowers and reap red fruits” or, in other words, to spread the thoughts of Chairman Mao, and they must “wallow in the mud by becoming workers and peasants.” The programme for manual labour is seen by political observers as part of a general effort by the Peking authorities to prevent further riots among Red Guard factions and to reassert weakened central control.
In Shanghai, the young people were told to “avoid the evil of falling in love and getting married early.”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31783, 13 September 1968, Page 15
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