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MRS, CALDWELL'S IMPRESSIONS OF CHUNGKINGTM
“Half-way around the world from you is this nation of 300 million people, who are a friendly people, a people who want to be and who are friendly to America. Today, when their lives hang in the balance, they turn their eyes toward Amerles who can give them so much." said Mrs. Erskine Caldwell (Margäret Bourke-White), wife of the noted American playwright and staff photographer for life, during a broadcast to North America' on April 21 at the special request of the United China Relief, Inc., New York
Mr. Roosevelt has appointed the Secretary for Agriculture, Mr. Wic- kard, and Chief of Public Health
Mrs. Chitiwell said, "In part." "The stairs is a group of terraced apart- Services. Mr. Partan, (just return- ed from England) to work out a hardest thing to realise is the ments that have been built for plan for sending food and vitamins sheer number of people who have $25,000 in U.8. currency contributed, to Britain and the Democracies been made homeless by this war, by foreign trends of China, largely under the Lease and Lend Bill. This war has put more people on in America. Of that, $10,000 came They will receive suggestions the march, caused more shifts of from the American Red Cross. from an official of the British Min-|population and more sheer volume There are 40 apartments and they istry of Food now on his way to of misery than any other war in will house 80 families. the United States. The foodstuffs history. Even the face of the map "When I walked into one of the will include cheese, dried-eggs. has been changed. When the Yel-apartments, I was astonished to milk, port, canned goods and vita-low River dikes were bombed out, see the most beautiful wall paper min concentrates, according to the the course of the river was chang- I had seen in Chungking.”
the ed and the old valley where mil New York correspondents of
WAR ORPHANAGES Dally Telegraph and News Chiro- llons of people lived and raised
their crops dried up.
Continuing. Mrs. Caldwell des- "America has some of the food "It is as if the Mississippi River cribed the war orphanages under you need and I am satisfied that diverted from flowing into the Gulf Madame Chiang Kai-shek. the American people will be glad of Mexico and flowed instead into mentioned in particular an inter- to make sacrifices from their own the Atlantic Ocean through Geeresting way by which they learn to diet If the food Britain requires gia. A dust bowl developed where count the use of the symbols of can be obtained better from the these millions of people had lived, war. They have cut out little plc- on the United States than elsewhere," and these hordes too are on the tures and pasted them declared Mr. Averell Harriman, Mr: march, the indirect victims of war, blackboard. Under No. 1 they have. Roosevelt's personal representative "So the building and excavating plane. No. 2 is represented by two pasted a cutout of a bombing go on: a constant tapping and anti-aircraft guns, The other "America's steel capacity is 85 splitting of rock and carrying away numbers are illustrated by rines, million tons this year." Mr. Her spoonfuls of earth in the slow tanks, Chinese" sabres, and so on. riman added. "784 factories are steady way that the Chinese have when they learned to write the No, Immediately available in the Uni- worked for centuries. And in the, they cut out nine bombers. ted States for war-production and midst of this steady building of almost as many again are under new houses and new shelters at a the large number of well-camou
Mrs. Caldwell was impressed with construction by the Government or time-honoured, steady pace, the aged factories in and around private enterprise."
bombardments come and the peo- Chungking. "They are strange
in London.
U.S.S. IN AUSTRALIA
She
the
ple have to build their houses all sights.. Their smoke-stacks are Two squadrons of United States over again.
camouflaged like trees, covered warships consisting of four crud- "The new ones that they build with branches and draped with sers and nine destroyers have are entirely of bamboo: People nets painted green.” been in Australian waters visiting wear bamboo in this country, eat it "Some of the factories," she said, Auckland (two cruisers and four raw or" broiled, weave it into "can only be found If someone who destroyers) and Sydney (two cru- houses, use it instead of iron pipes trusts you will tell you where they sers and five destroyers). The sig-in factories, bind their rafters to- are. They are carved into nificance of the visits is enhanced gether with it, and use it instead earth under vegetable gardens. by the fact that the ships form an of nails. On this main stairway The terraced fields for which the Integral part of the United States leading to the Yangtze, there are Chinese are famous make effective Fleet battleforce based on Hawaii, two types of reconstructed dwell- roofs for these factories. Under- The importance of British Ings that form a great contrast to neath, carved into caverns of earth American co-operation in economic each other. On the left of the and rock, are generators, lathes. warfare is shown by the appoint-stairs 19 a group of shelters, the milling machines, and vital ment of Professor Noel Hall, hi-"]usual ones one sees in heavily machines of all kinds. These therto director in the Ministry of borbed areas. They are tossed machines have a history of having Economic-Warfare, to, take charge together with mats of woven bam- been carried plece by piece for of economic warfare. work at the boo.
hundreds of miles on coolle back, British Embassy In Washington!
"There are no stores in these in river sampans, in hand carts; as- with the diplomatic rank of Min-shelters. These are the houses on the factories moved ahead of ad- ister.
the left of the stairs, where refugees vancing Japanese." (Central are living. On the right of the News).
American naval convoys for ships carrying supplies to Britain are re- commended in the latest state- ment on basic policy by the Com- mittee to Defend America by Ald-| ing the Allies. The committee also recommends that the law should be revised to permit the recruiting of Americans who wish to serve with the armed forces af nations to whose defence is necessary American security, declares the Daily Telegraph's New York cor- Tespondent.
DEMAND CONVOYS
2.
U.S. SAILOR
· ENGAGED IN BRISBANE
HARBOUR OFFICE NOTIFICATION
SINGAPORE BUOYS REPLACED
Brisbane Second-class engineer| John Sapp, of the US. Destroyer
A Harbour. Office · notification Downes, announced his engage-issued yesterday states that the ment to Mary (Bonnie) Gill, a following beacons consisting of a "By one means or another we Brisbane girl. This is the first staff surmounted by a white disc wil see that the weapons needed engagement announced since the have been established in the fol- for Britain's defence reach the US. squadron reached Sydney last lowing positions: shores of England and if no other Thursday.
(D-1 cables 239 degs, from the
means are found, the American Sapp and Miss Oil met in the light on Pulo Sakijang Pelepah people will demand that our gov-city when Miss Gill asked Sapp for (East St. John. Island); ernment use convoys," states the his autograph, New York Times.
In naval circles in Washington
(1)-2 cables 300 degs. from the Sapp is nicknamed Speed by his occulting green light in Fairburn
Channel.
it was stated that it could be pre- naval friends, because he is a car sumed that warships and planes racing fan. He has another year to of the neutrality patrol were re-serve with the Navy. He will then doubling their vigilance off the marry his fiancee. Atlantic coast as a result of a He said today that he was not warning of the presence of Ger- sure whether he would come to man, warships in the Atlantic: Australia for "the wedding, or A Navy official in Washington whether his fiancee would go to
that for the remainder of America. this week an undisclosed, number
-sald
*(11) 0.6 cables 071 degs. from thị white obelisk on Pale Tembakul (Peak Island), in the charted post- tion of the stake. 非
BUOYS WITHDRAWN. The red spherical buoys laid in the following positions are bein withdrawn:...
(1)-14 cables 238 degs. from the "But I think Miss Gill will come light on Pulo. Sakijang Pelepah of U.S.A, submarines will hold ex- ercises in Long Island Bound and to the States," he added,
(East St. John Island).
(11)-2 cables 300 degs, from the
also at Virginia Cape and Florida Miss Gill is the only child of Mr. Waters adds the American bread- and Mrs. P. B. Gill, of The Valley, occulting green light in Fairburn casting station of Wayne.
Brisbane.
Channel.
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