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Chinese
Women
In Combat
BFy SPENCER MOOSA
CHUNGKING — One of Japan’s
biggest problems in China is a
ghost army viciously and contin
ually stabbing in the rear.
It is an army of hard-hitting,
hard-fighting guerrilas whose
broad strategy is: Withdraw when
the enemy advances, harass him
when he camps, attack when he is
exhausted, give chase when he
flees.
The hunting ground stretches
2,500 miles. The strength is of
ficially estimated at 350,000 or
more men and women. They op
erate in the shadow of Shanghai.
Peiping, Canton and other cities
in occupied China: in Manchurian
forests: in the rich valley of the
Yangtze: in the mountains of
Shantung. Wherever there are,
Japanese in China, there are guer- .
rilas.
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Isolated from China proper are
some 20.000 guerrillas in Man
churia cut off from active direc
tion by Cungking.
Movement Began in '37
South of the Great Wall the
guerilla movement started with
the outbreak of war on July 7.
1937. Its sponsors were princi
pally the intelligentsia and retired
army officers. They were scat
tered groups acting independent
ly. Aftdr the battle of Hsuchow.
in May, 1958, the government ap
pointed regular army officers for
liaisson work with guerrilla
groups.
As the Japanese advanced deep
er into China communications with
the guerrillas were, in many cases,
completely cut off and their ef
fectiveness began to decline. Dur
ing the battle for Hankow, lost
to the invaders in October, 1938,
the government changed its pol
icy and guerrilla troops were re
organized into regular units, large
and small, and became an inte
gral branch of the Chinese army.
How They Operate
The guerrillas blow up bridges,
wreck trains, burn food and, sup
ply depots, sabotage machinery in
mines and factories, toss bombs
into Japanese patronized amuse
ment places, cut telegraph wires,
destroy highways and attack Jap
anese supply columns. They are
particularly partial to assaults on
smaller Japanese garrisons.
Skill inr demolition and othe
destructive work was developed
at schools devoted to the training
of guerrilla force officers.
As integral parts of the Chinese
army, the guerrillas are under
the direct authority of the nearest
war zone commander. They are
paid and supplied by the army.
Thousands of women serve.
They do work roughly analogous
with that of women i nU. S. forces
but with one exception—many are
fighters as much at home in a
skirmish as a GI is with a Gar
and.
The most famous guerrilla today
is a 63-year-old woman. Madame
Chao Yu Tung, known as the
“mother of the guerrillas.” At the
head of a band, she fought many
engagements with the Japanese
who have placed a price of 250,009
Chinese dollars on her head. To
day she is special recruiting agent
for the army.
A pint-sized grandmother, with
wrinkled face and slow walk, she
is already a legend. Once to
demonstrate to a group of skepti
cal peasants that they too should
become guerrillas she led a party
to the corn field and with a
Mauser in each hand shot and
killed two Japanese sentries with
in sight of the walls of Peiping.
By Sea As Well
Officially there are no sea guer
rillas. but unofficially China’s
ghost army has operated at sea
as well as on land. Men, operate
in small boats to raid enemy light
houses, or travel as innocent pas
sengers and take possession of
Japanese merchantmen.
Guerrillas make the Japanese
grip on North China an uneasy
one. People escaping from Peip
ing have been conducted hundreds
of miles through Japanese lines
to safety.
The Chinese military authori
ties here say that in peace time
eighty percent of China’s guer
rilla forces would be peasants or
students. Students constitute
thirty percent of the force and
peasants fifty percent.
Since the reorganization, China’s
ghost army receives regular mili
tary rank, the highest that of Lieu
tenant General, and is organized
like a rgeular military base
Most of the guerrilla forces
possess radio sets, and receive or
ders in a secret number code
which has apparently baffled the
best brains of the Japanese army.
Accounts of the casualties in
flicted by the guerrillas have often
been exaggerated. The high com
mand has made available to The
Associated Press its own records
which modestly claim that since
the outbreak of war to the end of
November, 1942, the guerrillas
have killed 33,282 Japar.es f 1
lost 38,042 in dead themselves.
T ool Dae^t
dispcs ho following list are the
off'c: ' s on which the ice
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1943— April 28 .7:22 p. m
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT.
SECOND DIVISION. TERRI- j
TORY OF ALASKA.
No. 659 ,
NOTICE OF HEARING AND SET
TLEMENT OF FINAL ACCOUNT
In the Matter of the Estate of
HARRY CREMIDAS. Deceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
ihat the undersigned Administra
tor of the estate of Harry Cremi
das, deceased, has filed in the
above-named Court his Final Ac
count, and that the 22nd day of
April, 1944, at the hour of 10
o’clock A. M. of said day. at the
Courtroom of said Court, at
Nome, Alaska, has by Court Or
der been fixed as the time and
place for a hearing on said Final
Account and an adjudication as to
who the heirs and distributees of
I said deceased are
OBJECTIONS to said Account
will be heard at this time.
Dated the 21st day of February,
1944.
GUST CREMIDAS.
Administrator
C. C. TANNER,
Attorney for Administrator.
Nome, Alaska.
Feb. 23; March l, 3. 15.
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