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"Her ladyship's compliments, and would you deliver the water to the tradesmen's entrance ot the rear ? “
CHINA'S YOUTH ARMY RETURNS TO SCHOOL
S
TILL wearing their padded blue campaign uniforms, 10,000 Chinese soldiers--nuny of them carrying the sears of recent battle are back in school under China's Itte-
publicised "G.J. Bill of Rights."
JOHN RODERICK, Associated Pross correspondent, visits the student veterans of Burma and Manchuria
teachers, In-
These former foot soldiers mental educational benefits. The sehnol's 205 are demobilised veterans of the Lack of money and the high cluding De Hu, share the discomforts Youth Army which fought rate of illiteracy among army of the students. They are generally... against the Japanese in Burma units combine to make this so, young, underpaid and, despite ex- and more recently engaged the Thousands of other soldiers treme difficulties, would rather teach Chinese Communists on wintry must be satisfied with primary than cat.. Manchurian battlefronts.
school training while they are Student morale is high; discipline
Now, carrying schoolbooks in the ranks, and because of the is extraordinarily so. instead of rifles, hunched over manpower shortage must return
On the campus there is a cluck crude desks in chilly, unheated to farm upon discharge.
Faced with financial and military which bears the legend, "Sze kleng classrooms, they are battling
mculties. the government, none e sua ming" (Time is Life). with algebra and history, mak- theless, keeping faith with the ing assaults on English pro- Youth Army, formed in 1943 from Kushing's old soldiers have a full,
Eray's who had had some
iniddie busy day. It beŋling at 5.39 in the nouns mid square roots.
school or university education, morning and ends ni 10 o'clock at This
were demolilisel night at "lights out." Some students Kroup-comparatively When thousands
last year, it offered free tuition, have such a passion for learning that emall when the size of China's food and housing for those who they surreptitiously bring kerosene armies is considered--is the wanted to pick up their interrupted lamps into their rooms to pare over Chief boneßeinry of
their books until midnight. The Kovery schoollug.
school had to forbld this because it FIVE MIDdle schoOLS was affecting student health.
A now technique for choosing bighor, Civil Servants ↳ la opersilon at a country house in Surrey. Its success may bring far-reaching changes in industry and the professions. CHARLES WINTOUR descritos-
A week-end
INETY out of every 100 candidates for the higher posts in the Civil Servic
fail to make the grade.
Yet surprisingly few of the unlucky candidaten Krumble about the result. Listen to par of them: "I folt firmly convinced that if I failed to reach the re quired standard I could biame nu one but myself. 1 failed to do so and my opinion is still the
same."
at the
manor
ย
IT established
"YOU GET SO COLD”
Military training is taboo, and so. five middle schools is political indoctrination. under 15- Defence Ministry's education section, healed by progres- sive General Ching Ching-kun, the Generalisine's eldest son. Chief of thege is the National Youth Middle TYPICAL undergraduates are Tso Ren-jow, 19; Wang Ru-bat, 17;
Han- such-chun, 21-year-old Man-
vintrian.
After lunch am given 15 minutes School in Kashing. North Cheklang,
The olhers 711 Ira Chungking. Chang Feng-chu. 19:
Hangehow June!
ה
olg
to prepare a 10-minute speech on
am told to Rweyang, one of these subjects; choose an audiener of os high an in-hung, ie Shemd Province. tellectual level as ean face. (The
The government offered an youngest candidate choosen an interexpenses-paid programare for those Chimpting youth, WHA 10 when nationni selentifie congress; the of university nge.
Txo. a confident, pink-cheeked
Chiang Kai-shek asked for army olchest trade union chapel) The
volunteers Ire 1043. ile joined the Sbserver of my group
then inter- Kashing Middle School, will New First Army in Kunming, went views me. ranging over the whole 2,500 ex-soldiers is typical.
with it to Burma. There he fought We Held of my spreial subject.'
many four major battles "und so It is not luxurious. The poorest httle ones touch on 30 toples in an hour.
I can't remember how student in an American or European
At war's end- he continued many." After ten the groups are mixed, school would be appalled at condi- to fight in Chian's unending civil!
can cross-checktions which these industrious, hard-
war Hea veteran of the Arsi
C that the t
want
their markings. We discuss, working youths arcept without attle of Stepingital. formally, public and private moralt-griping. ly. Work finishes by 0 p.m.
to study electrlen} The buildings were formerly used engineering," he says. "I am tired by the Japanese.
are grey of war. Is terrible. You get s dull, and inspiruly constructed. cold, especially in Manchuria." Classrooms are large, freezing cold,
One woman wept
ΟΝ
have N Sunday morning I
an interview with the chairman
(at meal-times we are 1301 undir
further observation) comes psychological test. We study a sertes of pictures, reminiscent of
411315 from chily French movies. ench 1 minute, unic screened for half
story write the outline of a short round each 'one. Then the screen goes blank, and we compose a short- of our group, and then grapple with complicated psychological Tests about clock faces. Then we write a description of our own character from the viewpoint of
story outline of our own.
וג)
Subconscious probe
character that human ingenuity workers, has yet been able to devise,
the Our
Aut budget of
some
They
canipped with rudimentary desks Wang, Honanese, was little more
benches.
than when he entered the army. He saw his heaviest action in Man-
In many of them old newspapers churts, where he Was one of the take the place of window
panes, 300 who held off 20,000 Reds in the which are too expensive to buy.
battle of Taipingling, ал action which lasted seven hours and only The libenry was once a stable for ended when the Nationalists, out of
ammunition, finally retreated.
as
thè Civil
holldayN
STUDY, LIVE HARD
ม
star-
What lies behind this unusual compliance with the verdict of
fter that probe into our imagina-
(a) a friend and (b) a critic. And the Japanese. the examiners? The answer live caparilles, a series af 40
"I'd much rather study than fight." may be found within the words are displayed for 30 seconds mully we list the other candidates
he says. "In the beginning, it was each, followed by 30 seconds during in our own order of merit, first as weathered walls of 22 mand which we write down our immediate potential colleagues
NINETY students huddle together very hard to study. I had forgotten so many things. Now I like it. J (Some of house in Surrey. Every candi- reactions.
words: Service and, secondly,
the barn-like dormitories, is not so difficult. I hope I can one subcon companions.
sleeping on beds made of wood, date who passes the written hurt, beer, mother.)
na agriculturist, be- day become rious minds now exposed to the view
double-tiered, without springs, mat-
cause, you see, I love the land." examination must spend tarve of the ard, we bed an intromptu
It has been a very long week-tresses or pillows. A none-too-thick discussion
population problems
the only end for the candidites. One highly padded innket supplies days undergoing the "country
EIGHT YEARS tea.
After tea we read information hotise test" at stoke D’Abseron file containing
about intelligent woman (who passed the warmth. I searched In vult for à
on arrival at stove of any description.
**My Mauer, near Cobham. And this an imaginary island in the Indis test) told me that
to press
CHANG was a radioman, Fifteen hundred Ocean. Given an hour and a half Waterloo she was unable
crowd into test provides the must searching to take notes, and then to answer the right button in
family was poor," he said simply. the telephone large, mrer-ventilated mess half for "When the Japanese occupied our scrutiny of intelligence
tive bux when she rang her husband. meals which consist of rice, a few village in 1941, my parents become And when she returned home, and vegetables and, rarely, meat Eating refugees. Later, they died of That ends the first day. Every-
Teft Honan for in peeling the utensils are simple-a pair of chop vation. had some difficulty
Layang thing has been carried out at terrifi:
sticks mul a blue, enamel drinking where I went to school. Then, in putatues, she sat down and wept. speed, so that neither Lerves
cup which gerves the double our 1014. when the Japs come again. our But she is still convinced that it is Influence preparation could
pose of holding soup and rice.
13,000 of us marched to Honchung performance. But at night good test_
Some candidates
|_ Ealing" "time"is" about five minute in Shensi to join the Youth Army. guess we must have walked 1,500 EW accounts of what happens at difficult to sleep.
spend the early hours
Sir Percy Waterfield, the head of | Everyone stands up,
1. Now it has been eight CLSREE, AN UIVO 60. l. niet?
the Civil Service Commission, tu "Mast of the students study hard since I returned home. My village this vil Service Section rara, but the grounds.
Its the Board sentis
livr hard." Saturday, Called at 1.15 with whom
snys Kashing's is occupied by the Communists. have zo fe been published, as the tea, breakfast 7.45; start work at whory reports, agrees with her. He | principal, mild-mannered, be a cater to learn all I can so that Press are rigorously excluded. 8.30. The group holds an chaired declares that CISBEE "has proved spectacled Dr Ho Chang-ekih, who I may master foreign literature or
to comple
is regarded as abit
one of the leading education." men in China for secondary educa- imaginary diary of a week-end at hinaginary Island.
tin. He holds a Master's degreeur thin boy, with an Using is perhaps the most unusual from the University of Michigan,
brooding eyes studied at Columbia and in London intense face, and Berlin before taking up his life high cheekbones, he is bliter against
the Russians. work in China.
His monthly salary is CN$2,000,- 800-or a little less than US$IO
FE
£447 hostess
I have been
walking
-
un debate U1 alse
vur future of
Then we each a success without any qualification." The old manor house has seen the have a turn in the chair, and co- the country house from impress sider an agenda dealing with such birth of a new interviewing tech published in Civil Service journals, subjects as next year's crops nique. If these methods are skilful and interviews with candidates who the establishment of a seaplane
base. have undergone the text,
At 1230 we fill out another ly applied they may secure drama- interest form, listing views we are the results in every branch of in- prepared to defend in argument. dustry and the professions.
at Friday. - Arrive
Stok d'Abernon about 11 aan. Terraced lawas run down to the River Mole, A hostess (salary £447 a year) pins an identification number fo lupet ant cont collar. Am given roum in centrally heated converted Army
In common room meet but. other candlitinter, some women. Have
20
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
years
andi
our
"My father was a leather crafts- iman. and we were living in village near Antung when the war ruded. I was in middle schoot then, The Russians came through
We cur village, raping and looting. considered ourselves human
human beings." he salt without bitterness, "but the
One day Russians didn't.
we got rifles fruin the Myself: He said:
"It is brains some Japanese were made of clots there would not puppet police, stationed ourselves at fol of Russian soldiers drove up we between the
for a baby ant."
opened are. We killed two of them. tlonists and the Presuppositionists Echo from the past
not quoting
GREAT fun is to be got out A storm breaks
of resenting everything
pholograph taken in three positions. tant is said. The other day A FELLOW-HACK, entering the be enough to make a bleycting cap the top of a hill, and when a truck-
debate
We listen to a short lecture giving two men in a bar were cursing outline of programme by Colonel the big oil men," who cause so criticizes #e for
Pinsent, chairman
with
the o!
Frustra-
In
HIS ONLY LIFE-
NATURALLY, I had to fee my
Board much trouble in the world.
SEE at some people reproach (£1500 a year), and then divide After a while stepped quietly Mrs Palmer, "the Egeria of Presup-
Bishop Barnes quote Gaudriole),
with being into three groups of seven, each over to them and said gravely, "You positionism” (I
But he is only Native "advanced thinker." a chairman, observer tabout gentlemen should not talk so loudly say I point out to him that Chitter- 1:1000 # years and a psychologist in a pubile place. You never know ling, in his "Aspects of Bestiality," saying what people like Lamensis:
who is listening."
What do you has demolished Rumbelgutz, and and Proudhon were saying over (about £1000 a year).
mean?" said ane of the men angrily. made his theory of transitional hundred years ago in France. "Re- Tickling in both legs, one with
replied, "I am what
is progress," said Proudhon. I resent your pseudo-philosophical balderdash call a big oil ma
ros, aw remarks. The
We have short intelingener test, a quiz done against the clock. Then we complete, in five minules, a form showing our main interests.
ין
men
place after that. government army wounded at
with shrap- Idear party the Russians because
the I joined
Chinchow,
ligion is the enemy of science And wherever
"There bullet, is is no much thing as a miracle when
would existence a laughing stock you
locked
15
nel.
the other I have
סנז
talked? Moreover,
Chitterling 15
child. Oscar B. Contenheimer, nais.
unr, the
Rev. T. N. Velvett, Among the new books Eylesch, Hodonitra, Cesspitz and Norma. Orstrom,
supported by Bludenz, Daine Bap- one uses one's reason," said Lamen-b
they treated the people so badly,
ch other and then at my clothes, I was not their idea of a bug oil man Then one of them said, "We're very The har opens before lunch. The vorry, sir, but we meant nothing older candidates fortify themselves personal. As matter of fact, we
of thinking were
Persian with spirits (at Nanti prices); oilfields," The agreeable smile faded Interlude
from
** own face. iny of the target," 1 said stoully, and walked out of the bar.
ALAN
(READE
JAMUEL S...
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