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CHARLOTTE HALDANE came to China to see the part the women are taking in the war with Japan. This is her second article...
ARLENE DIETRICH has nothing on me. The cinema has everything to learn from real life. Read on and agree
Two days ago, at 4.30 in the afternoon, I was standing on the roof of a building in Shameen, the Foreign Concession of Canton. I was wearing n tin hat and had a pair of strong field glasses in my hand (but I couldn't see through them).
As I had raced up 148 steps to get the roof, plus another vertical iron step ladder, I could hear the subdued roar of the Japanese bombing planes over the elly. They were saving their bombs to drop them on the Canton-Hankow rall- way line, a few miles farther on.
Down below in the town life went on with that herole normality to which I had already got used in Spain. No panic; no hysteria; no distress. The quiet stoicism of a people prepared to stick out a war of suffering and liorer, thrust on them by
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Outlaw the Bomber EUROPE becomes jittery again. No sooner are the demands of one Totalitarian State appeased than another dictator appears on the scene with his demands, and a new crisis is born.
How long will it continue? the As long, we believe, as power to repeat what has already happened in Spain and in China lies in the hands of the Totali- tarians.
Their big stick is the most modern of weapons-the unde- clared war which arrives by bombing of unprotected civilians. Democracy has superior forces on land and on sea, but the will of the Totalitarians can be im- posed because the democracies do not wish to have-their fac- tories and ports laid in ruins before their navies can steam or their armies march. They do not wish to have thousands of homes destroyed, women and children slain, their countrysides smashed by nations which seemingly believe that no men-
sures are too drastic or inhuman.
It seems plain that if demo-
crncies are to survive as J partial realisation of man's struggles for freedom, the bomb- ing aeroplane as a weapon against civilians must be out- lawed. Democracies conceivably. might struggle through another major war fought along the classic lines between trained forces. They cannot live on equal terms with nations which war as the barbarians did, leav- ing not a stone upon a stone. nor a living soul in their sack of hostile cities. Our 20th century way of life cannot be sustained under such a threat.
The bomber
weapon against defenceless cities and non-combatant civilians must be outlawed. The horrors it has brought to Spain and China are but a faint prelude of what is to come if their use is allowedl unchecked.
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Chimps See Movie
London, Peter and Jackie, two of the London Zoo's best-known chimpanzees, were taken to the movies to see the film "Monkey Into Man." in which they starred. Close-ups of chimps and arang-utans, including a dance, pro- voked the most interest from Peter, ni Jackie.
Up on our roof we had a splendid view of the city, divided by the broad waters of the Pearl river, with the Sun Yat Sen Memorial tower rising sling and upright against its background of green-clad mountains. The two American quarter- masters from the gunboat on the river had seen the Afteen bombers go over.
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We walted, smoked, tulked, After half an hour their trained cars caught the hum of a missing engine; glasses found up against the blue sky a returning bomber making for his base with all haste.
I could pick him out easily without glasses, a nasty shiny little allver mosquito, whose sting meant devastation. The of anti-aircraft pop shells burst round him like floating dandelion heads.
No panic; no hysteria
Bombers overhead
An hour later I was at the station. The rak was over, the Hankow train ready to leave. The Jine was said to be all right. As the passengers assembled they queued up to have their baggage examined by the local station police. The sol- disciplined, diers. bright eyed, watchful, stood by.
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Rails Are
Bombed Daily
"E found our compartment. Outwardly the couch looked in need of a good coat of paint, but inside all was neat and comfortable. The girl students who had come to wish me good-bye went home; in that leisurely but calm Chinese wartime way the train began to proceed.
As we moved out, the setting sun rast a copper glow on the emerald green rice-Belds. A Chinese raft- way engineer with us, who has studied in France, explains in faultless French that the Canton- Hankow line is bullt entirely by Chinese engineers and labour.
A good job,. It runs over three important bridges, spanning deep rivers; these bridges are the daily goal of the Japanese bombers. On each bridge they have dropped, or attempted to drop, loads of bombs whose cost has already equalled. not surpassed, the cost of bullding
them.
So what? It is dark now, we slow down to a crawl. We have come to the first of the bridges. As gingerly as a man mountain-climbing, pick- ing his way along a precipice bounded by deep crevasses, our Chinese engine-driver takes his precious rain across.
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Just enough Hetic
whereby we can see the enormous ernters on each side of the line. Some of them are pretty close to the mark; so near, and yet so far.
Now we are on the bridge; below us we can hear and see the foam- ing river, A few moments, and we are over. Somehow, here in China. one tends to think in proverbs: for the first time realise the full- significance of not crossing one's bridges until one comes to them!
And I feel more than a little like Allee locking through the Looking- Class, as an hour or two later we come to a fairly large station, and a prolonged wait. For they have not quite succeeded in repairing the damage to the rails a few miles farther on.
These Chinese platelayers are little short of stupendous. Dally the line is bombed, and daily or nightly
squnds of platelayers. mostly farmer volunteers from the local villages, walt to repair it as soon as the all-clear is given.
Oil for the
Lamps of China
SHORT delay; the train pro- ceeds. At our village station we get out to stretch our legs, Everywhere It is quite dark now. twinkle the little oil lamps carried by the peasants.
"Oll for the lamps of China." Do you remember? I think the help. the sympathy, the support we can give these herole humble demo- crats of China-That is the modern reality of the old fairy-tale; let us bring up to date, let us pour oli into the lamps of China.
Farther up the platform a sort of wide large rough cage of bamboo
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poles is erected. Behind this are the pensants, crying and selling their wares; it is very sensibly erected to prevent them from pour- ing on to the platform, blocking the way.
On one side they prepare and hold out bowls of food on the other the passengers take them, com- plate with chopsticks, and satisfy their hunger.
Is He Thief
-Or a Smuggler?
N the dark, the lamps of China Illumine faces; beautiful faces of women; mischievous faces of little boys and girls; faces of old men, carved like seasoned wood: faces, resolute, watchful almond eyes of alert soldiers. denly, a slight bustle and commo- tion, but no noise nor shouting.
Bud-
In this orderly scene, however, enough movement to attract atten- tion. Half a dozen uniformed men, soldiers, guards, or policemen, move down the platform to the station-master's office. They don't go inside so we can see; we follow them.
A very respectable looking gent
Retreat From The World
By T. Paul Gregory
GREAT deal has been
said and written about. those complex organisa- tions of human society which are of ecclesiastical origin. These are, of course, the various orders of pious· men and women who en- Ideavour to find in religion the peace, happiness, and spiritual satisfaction that is denied to them in the secu- lar existence of their fellows.
After all, there is fascina- tion attached to monastic life; for retirement from the throbbing, tumultuous, and care-bound world of men has always been the ideal of many a serious- minded man and woman.
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THUS longing of the human
soul for seclusion and quietude seems to have been better understood by Oriental people, and it is in the East, where the practice had its origin, and incidentally con- tinues to have its highest do- velopment. Buddhism, especi- ally, has encouraged monastic life, and the monks and nuns, who constitute the ecclesiastical fabric of the faith, form an interesting society.
Their division into religious and orders "brotherhoods" "sisterhoods"-under the rule of an abbot or abbess as the case may be, is similar in scope to the organisations which have persisted until recent years in the West, and their lives are as much isolated from the masses of the people. Indeed, the fac tors of their monastic vows--- chastity, abstinence from flesh and wine, and distinctive ap- parel, as well as their dwelling in monasteries or convents- tend to emphasise the demarca- tion from the lives of those around them.
Or
They have, in every sense of the word, "left home," ch'ut-ka, as the Cantonese term it, and their separation is generally complete; for like their Christian counterparts, the "they have retired from world in order to gain salva- tion."
is in their midst. He is middle- THOSE Chinese men and wo-
well-dressed, aged,
Wears an almost new soft hat, quite a phenomenon in this country of wildly varying picturesque but generally well-matured headgear.
A sult-case is opened; and every- one suddenly starts advancing views and theories. Is he a thief? Is he a smuggler? What is it all about?
The gent remains reasonable and calm. If they want the case, they can have it. He doesn't mind. Is this suit his? Yes, this one is. But those things belong to a friend. No, he knows nothing about them. All right then, Mr. Stationmaster. take the lot; you can have it; I'll go on without the case. I'm not really Interested in clothes, and that sort of thing.
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Everyone
Is So Polite!
UT very quietly, without any fuss or bother, the gent Is suddenly enlaced with a nico thin cord, which goes round his neck and arms, back and front Much less fussy than handcuffs, and somehow less ignominious, perhaps, because everything is done so quietly, and everyone is so polite.
Next thing we know, our gent is sitting on a bench inside, with an armed guard keeping an unobtru- sive eye on him. Gossip says they found a minute camera, and the thinnest of wafer-sheets of paper, stuck together, and that the gent had a girl friend, who somehow did not succeed in "making" the train at Canton, So that's that.
We resume our journey. We
men who adopt the monas-"
tic life come from every atrata of native society, and the mo- tives which actuate their choice are, naturally enough, as varied as human
nature itself. A great many, especially the young, "have had their first hard fight in life's battle, and sorrow and
disappointment
have entered so deeply into the young hearts that life in the monastery with its calm, deep pence, away from the hard, cruel world, seems the only salvation.... Some have be- come sick of life. others come to the monasteries with a genuine desire to find religious light, comfort, and peace."
are
Of these individuals, those who become nuns aro perhaps the most interesting; for not nearly so much is known about them and their lives as about that of their brothers in the faith. Buddhist nuns generally recruited from the ranks of those women and girls who have suffered some tragedy in their lives, and therefore seok to find solace from their sorrows in the contemplation of the inner mysteries of the doc- trine of Sakayamuni, whom men call the Buddha-the "En lightened One."
These women are largely what the Chinese call trit-foo, or "chusto. widows," who will not remarry, or maidens who
crossed our next two bridges in having lost their betrothed, vow to spend the remainder of their lives in the seclusion of a nunnery in order that they may better understand the facts of Karma which have forced them. to choose a life of single blossod-
the middle of the night. I was aleoping very peacefully. The lamps of China are alight; they are glowing with a very vigilant and steadfast oll. They must be fed, for they are lighting the path of the future; to a good world for all good democratic people.
ness.
Many, however, are recruited from the ranks of cast-off con- cubines, or come from poor and (Continued on Page 5)
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