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Burma Road
Still Vital
It’s been a number of weeks
since any serious interruptions
•were reported on the Burma
road, the life-line for China, ov
er which munitions and supplies
go to the army of the Chung
king government.
Wisconsin-born Dr. John Earl
Barker, now director general of
the highway, says that every
month since the road was reopen
ed since last October has seen an
increase in daily tonnage and in
April traffic was three times that
of last November.
This is encouraging, especially
in view of the heroic fight that
the Chinese are waging for the
survival of their nation. For near
ly four years they have traded
space for time, yielding ground
to the better-armed and better
equipped Japanese, always in the
hope that the pasage of months
•would bring them the munitions
and equipment that they need.
Chinese soldiers have opposed
the Japanese without the artil
lery, tanks and planes that their
enemy possesses. They have
lought a magnificent fight. It
still is vital they receive ade
quate supplies and Britain and
the United States see to it that
the traffic on the Burma road in
creases.
RED CROSS TO ERECT
MANY ARMY BUILDINGS
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
War Depsrtmetn announced its
approval of plans by the Ameri
can Rod Ci oss to construct office
and headquarters buildings on 62
Army posts. All costs of construe
tion and appurtenant util ties, as
■well as operation and mainten
ance, will be paid by the Red
Cross. The construction is expect
ed to cost about $1,250,000.
The buildings will conform,
generaly speaking, to local typ^s
of arc’nitecture: some to be of
wood, along Colonial lines, some
in Mission style, other-- of brick
construction. Plans provide for
several sizes of buildings to con
ofrm with the dimensions of
availab’a bui dings sites. Army
oficer- in the various corps areas
will act n an advisory capacity
in designating appr pri.de loca
tions. Zone constructing quarter
mailers and district engineers
are to furnish technical advice in
coordinating these buildings with
other camp construction.
The structures are designed tc
contain offices in one wing, liv
ing quarters for Red Cross per
sonnel in an opposite wing, and
lecture rooms and reception
rooms in the center.
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Life Is War In
Chungking Capital
Of Free China
CHUNGKING. Sept. (.T>> — Un
certainty is one of the principal
ingredients of life in Chungking
today—uncertainty over the pros
pects of having your home smith
ereened in the next air raid.
The Chinese accept the Japan
ese attacks as an inconvenience
to which life has to be readjust
ed, and do their best to minimize
dislocation.
Life is compounded principal
ly of discomfort, inconvenience
and hardship, and only the sense
of grim purpose to defeat the en
emy, amounting in some cases to
a kind of exaltation, makes
many Chinese accept as incon
sequential the conditions which
wciu’d try the stoutest hearts.
Torrid, enervating heat from
which rain offers only occasional
and all too brief respite, is one
of the many enemies of physical
comfort.
Temperature indoors in the
crude makeshift structures that
form so many Chungking homes
and offices is nowadays about 100
degrees. Nights are sultry and
sound sleep is a luxury often de
nied.
Chungking has the unhappy
‘ reputation of being the world's
| most uncomfortable capital — a
reputation which no one living
here challenges.
Stomach Ailments Prevalent
Few persons are lucky enough
to stay here any length of time
without contacting one form of
stomach trouble or another — a
1 complaint from which the doc
tors estimate 30 percent of the
foreign community suffers. The
Yangtze is a pretty river but not
-o attractive when served as
drinking water in bott es where
a sediment of yellow mud has
settled. Ice is expensive and is
scarce.
Chungking probably is the
most expensive city in China.
Retail prices have risen twenty
five-fold since the war began.
Rice, which used to cost, seven or
eight cents a pound, now sells at
two dollars.
(Rough y, one Chinese dollar
equals five cents in American
money.)
A pack of 20 American cigar
ettes cost 13 dollars today, com
pared to 14 a month ago. Tire
supply of imported liquor is
steadily being exhausted. At the
Chungking club, once the home
I of heavy drinking, liquor is dol
ed out in small quantities.
Few Refrigerators
In all Chungking there are
THEY FIND THE EARTH GOOD —With primitive tools, farmers near Nanking, China,
, turn soil enriched by the meandering Yangtze river, preparing for a new rice crop.
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Certified Public Accountant
202 Lavery Building Fairbanks. Ala ka
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barely a dozen electric refriger
ators. The Chialing House, the
leading hotel, where most Am
erican visitors stay, has one but
it has been out of commission
for two months. Coffee is a lux
ury, as are milk, butter and a
hundred and one other things.
The Chialing House has no
running water except when it
rains. There are only a few res
taurants where "foreign chow” is
offered and where it is, one’s
dream of a juicy steak is likely
to turn into sad reality of buf
falo meat.
There is no rationing in Chung
king and restaurants are able to
serve tasty and lavish Chinese
meals —meals which many for
eigners would find appetizing but
for the Chinese indifference to
flies. There are occasional rice
shortages in which the poorer
classes are principal sufferers.
Telephone service works only
occasionally because repairmen
are unable to keep up with the
: destruction of Japanese bombers.
; Social life is affected by the
discomforts of travel and the dis
lances, yet many a foreigner will
go a long way if he has a friend
at whose home he may have a
; proper bath. A new form of in
; vitation whose propriety is nev
er questioned is "Would you like
to have a bath?”
Hospital Conditions Appalling
Air raids always bring their
misery, but to none more than
to patients in hospitals whose re
moval to dugouts is a sore trial.
Most Chungking hospita’s have
been destroyed and in the few
! Mill standing conditions are ap
palling. Prices of patent rem
i edies known the world over
reach their zenith here.
• The marvel re-enacted every
time the raiders come is the dis
appearance of the inhabitants
and much of the capital’s move
•b e property into dugouts. So
efficient is the system of warn
ings that Japanese raiders never
, have visited the city unheralded.
There are discomforts here, it
is true, but Chungking is in a
business to which everything
l else is subordinated —the busi
ness of keeping Chiang Kai
Shek’s war machine running.
Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps
Chinese Can Pay
Taxes In Kind
CHUNGKING, Sept.—The gov
i ernment decreed collection of
! taxes in kind, effective tomorrow
to relieve farmers of Free China
from the nccesuty of raising tax
' os in cash.
The rice crop is heavy, parfic-'
i ularly in Szechwan Province,
j which is known as “China's store
j house.” Rice prices are dropping, j
though government control mea
sttres, after a threatened short
age had forced them to skyrock
et. j
The Food Ministry will buy no
mere rice after Octohe*-. a move
to let prices seek the normal
level set by supply and demand,
j Tiie N rth China rice crop was
estimated at 70.051,030 bushels,
an increase of 2,480,000 bushels
over 1940.
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PASSENGERS AND EXPRESS TO
ALL PARTS OF ALASKA
Approximately One Dollar of Each Fare
Is Spent for Passenger Insurance
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
NOME FAIRBANKS
Irving McK. Reed
MINERAL SURVEYOR. G. L. O.
Surveying for Patent
Office on Second Street, back of Pelets
Will be in town until about October 15
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Farthest West Flying School
Eijht-hoisr Dual Instruction Flight Course—$105
Cce: FRANK WHALEY, Certified Instructor
. JAPANESE TROOPS ENTER SAIGON
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Japanese cycle troops roll over a bridge in Saigon, French Indo-China after the Vichy French gov
ernment agreed to occupation of Indo-China by the Japanese.
CARRYING WHITE MAN’S BURDEN—in the Philippines, the carabao, or w.’.er
buffalo, does the heavy work in the rice paddies. The Filipinos have ‘‘stepped up” rice production,.