TAIL, JUNE 24, 1989.
aught With Peril YOU LOOK REALLY SMART
Along
venture
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found my driver had gone, so I boarded the next convoy, which left a half an hour later.
"We must all be careful as this lorry is loaded with hand-grenades," I was told as I clambered aboard.
In the circumstances, the injunction was hardly necessary.
all creeds, and I believe that the alleg- ations of espionage which have been made against them in China are with- out foundation.
FAMILY GOES TO WAR The next day saw another early start. Searching for my lorry in the pale half-light of dawn, I encountered an interesting domestic tableau.
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A woman war-worker dressed in khaki uniform was seated on the run- ning-board of another lorry feeding her baby, while her soldier husband hina has The convoy started, and along we bumped and skidded over the half-dry
busy piling their belongings g, by the road. In spite of the driver's care, the
China has decided that the war small flat boxes with which the lorry with the was filled were
occasionally thrown going to last a long time, and sees no completely into the air, falling back on reason why women should not combine the floor of the vehicle with a resound-war-work, marriage and even matern- ing crash and causing even my Chinese ity. The fluid nature of the campaign fellow passengers to look somewhat and the fact that in China the Army and people are living side by side ren- ders this possible as it could not be in a more intensive campaign.
shipping uneasy. their ser- After this had happened several times, We concluded that the bombs al points must be good ones, and settled down to enjoy the morning sunshine and ys in the watch for raiding aircraft.
bes to ar-
This day was long and weary. The road was still soft from rain, and throughout the morning one or another of the trucks of our convoy"got stuck in the mud or fell into the ditch along- side.
ROSES IN WAR FIELDS Wild white climbing roses bloomed When this happened everybody had gloriously along the roadside, filling to turn to in order to dig and push the the air with their fragrance; the mar-Tecalcitrant vehicle out. shy hollows were studded with brilliant "Ai-ya, what trouble!" was the cho kingcups, and where the highway rus when we saw some leading lorry wound sinuously over the chalky
up-begin to skid wildly and then slip into lands the clear blue of camapanulas a ditch. ling that matched the sky in colour as they nod-
nation of
th a rich
nd in the
ere unable to opped outside ang for the
Twice we had to unload boxes of ded in the wind over the close-cropped bombs before being able to extricate a turf.
lorry.
It was the height of spring, and we were going to war.
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Nightfall found us at Shihaipu, dirty little village at the junction of the roads to Siangyang and Shasi,
"We start at five o'clock sharp to
SAILING BARROWS
We passed numbers of squeaking wheel-barrows laden with bales of cot- ton and bound for Shasi.
Many were big enough to require the efforts of three men to move them, They were assisted by sails set on bam- boo poles from the sides in order that advantage could be taken of the brisk following wind.
e driver hav-morrow morning," shouted the energe- ided to
tic lieutenant commanding the convoy wait val of another as he passed down the line of trucks. ore Tanyang.
Finding lodging in a tiny Chinese inn, through whose murky atmosphere,
It was the first time I had seen a thick with the fumes of cooking and fleet of wheel-barrows under sail. rape-oil lamps, came the click of mah- Travelling almost continuously till jongg tiles, I spread my bedding on two o'clock in the afternoon, we stop- the only available: couch, Д ricketyped at the town of Kingmen for food. wooden bed covered with grimy, straw
SEEN
hously familiar
I was in ruins,
e seen harried hensively.
of fate, the which gave promise of an uneasy night comparatively I had had supper when a servant istrate himself told me,
quiet, scholarly down below."
with apologies
men and town,
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Hardly had we climbed down and set houses
PRIEST ENCOUNTERED
search of a cookshop, when an air-raid alarm was sounded and we were oblig-
e something ot Impelled by curiosity, I steppeded to race back to the convoy, which
downstairs and found a ruddy-faced tore off up the road in the midst of population of
a clouds of dust. The convoy broke up Catholic priest having dinner with. killed when the he town some
Chinese companion. He was a passen-into groups and everyone sought hid- ger on another lorry. He said he was ing places. then, he con-bound for the Italian mission-at-Fin It would have been most unpleasant sible had been.
Only one tele-cheng with medical supplies and other to have been attacked with our cargo.
requisites.
n--for air-raid.
he Japanese, he completed the ad killed only a
to
The convoy commander decided continue the journey, and, except for occasional halts for a few minutes, we travelled continuously until 10 o'clock that night, when we finally reached our destination.
The priest greeted me cordially. We found ourselves with no common lan- guages except. Chinese, and in this tongue, assisted by friendly bystand ers, we talked while he finished supper. He had been 11 years in China, he told me. The position of his colleagues les, the Magis- was at present delicate. Not only had
sy supervising their work been increased by refugee It was a good day's journey, even in
NISATION
e people on aand other problems brought about by
3 them "the the war, but political matters were also.
e Japanese and
Chinese Army," ng encouraging Magistrate, who hat morning he orps of political erating in his
intruding and tending to make their position onerous.
Incidentally, I have met several Ita- lian Catholic priests in various parts of China. Their life is Spartan enough They have sacrificed much for their faith, in common with their fellow- religionists of other nationalities, as nsport depot, I indeed have the best missionaries
By George McManus
DID I LOOK LIKE THAT WHEN I WUZ HIS AGE?. MY POOR MOTHER AN' FATHER- HOW THEY MUST HAVE SUFFERED
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We Had been on the move 18 hours with nothing to eat but crude barley cakes baked at the wayside.
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