“Capitalist roader’ nears end of the line

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34093, 4 March 1976, Page 13

“Capitalist roader’ nears end of the line

(N.Z P A -Reuter—Copyright) HONG KONG. March 3. The Chinese senior Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Teng Hsiao-ping) might be forced to step -down by the campaign mounted against him by and the party central Chairman Mao Tse-tungi committee, a report | quoted by Peking Radio: said today. The report, by correspond-! ents of the New China News Agency and the Peking “People’s Daily,” did not name 71-year-old Mr Teng, but called him “that unrepentant capitalist roader within the party.” The report said that a “bourgeois democrat," and hater of the great Cultural Revolution, had been accuse ' of a host of political -sins. These included being the leader of the “right deviaitionist wind” that began last ' (northern ) summer and hav- ■ ing “organisations. plans, 'theory, and a programme for

Ihis restoration is t activities.” ; Mr Teng disappeared from I public life during the Cul■itural Revolution of the .19605, and resurfaced in 1973. He was named vice-j chairman of the party, first Deputy Prime Minister and ; chief of the general staff of i the Chinese Army last (northern) spring. J The report said that he i would be judged by I:', re- ■ ] sponse to the present anti--11 Rightist campaign, but his, I chances of retaining authorjity appeared slim. .1 Peter Griffiths, writing for y N.Z.P.A.-Reuter from Peking, >!says that reports were: [ reaching the capital of an J intensification in the prov-; .1 Inces of the wali-poster cam-; . Ipaign against Mr Teng. Travellers reported that i denunciations of Mr Teng I; had been pasted up in cenlitral China at Chengchow' - and Changsha! at Shanghai I;and Hangchow in the west, 'and at Canton in the south, si Students and workers are -taking part in the movement t]as far apart as tropical Nan--ining and Liaoning in Man,,l churia. according to the r official press.

; Train passengers in central China have also seen posters on stations attacking a senior railway official and expressing support for the head of the Chengchow railway — suggesting unrest in (the railway administration. In Peking, political wall posters in public places are believed to be outlawed because of the presence of the foreign community, but in factory yards throughout the j city “big character” notices have appeared naming Mr Teng as the source of “the .right deflationist wind.” Schoolchildren, too, have been encouraged to write anti-Rightist posters. At one i middle-school, wall cartoons ; have appeared depicting grim-faced youths stabbing at a tiny man with pens — . an apparent caricature of Mr Teng. This morning, classes for foreign students at Peking's . Institute of Languages began with teachers saying: "Today : we will consider the three . big capitalist readers — (the ■ late Defence Minister) Lin ■ Piao, (the disgraced former t.head of State) Liu Shao-chi arid Teng Hsiao-ping.”