Mao frees prisoners
(N.Z. Press Assn —Copyright) TOKYO.
Chairman Mao Tse-tung has released all middle-level and higher government and military staff remaining in custody since the Communist take-over of the Chinese mainland in 1949. the official New China News Agency reported. It broadcast a commentary by the Peking newspaper “People’s Daily” saying that citizenship rights were granted to the former Nationalist Chinese officials, who spent the last 26 years in labour-reform units.
It said that jobs would be provided for those desiring to stay in China and arrangements would be made for those who wished to return to Taiwan. “The prisoners were successfully rehabilitated by combining punishment with leniency and combining reform through labour with ideological education.” the commentary added. It did not say how many prisoners iwere released.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34037, 29 December 1975, Page 13
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