1938-03-05 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 5, 1938.

A BOOK KEEPER Shensi A Training

IN DESPAIR Centre For

Sir-Allow me to join in the protest against heartless landlords. All they consider is how much they can squeeze out of tenants.

Anti-Japanese Work

CHRIST CHURCH KOWLOON TONG

More than 1,000 young men and, of heavy weapons, and so forth. It They have no feeling for the suf-women from all parts of China and is noteworthy the Eighth Route fering and misery they are causing from Korea, Formosa, the Amur Army is now giving more attention to us poor people.

river region, the Tibetian border, to the use of heavy weapons and to I am one of those who have been Macao, and even the Philippine Is-mechanised warfare.

ary to The political lessons include the church have felt given notice to quit and I must lands are being trained at Yenan

ing any leave at the end of this month. (Shensi) in the principles of Lenin-study of Leninism, contemporary however, be

Chinese history, the use of I work hard at my job and al-ism and anti-Japanism.

pro- of extreme financia though I receive a small salary I The central organisation is known paganda, mass organisation and mean that comm prior to that per have tried to be content with my as the "Resistance University" mass singing.

and it should also lot. I can truthfully say that I which is directly under the control have given no trouble to my land-of General Lim Piao of the Com-ture actress, Lan Anin, is now great part in preserving

remunist Eighth Route. Army.

of Lim Piao is the president of the be university and the Red Commander, no Lo Wui-ching, acts as dean.

lord and have paid my rent gularly on pay-day at the end

each month. Yet I am to

thrown out of my house, with chance of finding another.

Fifteen hundred of Yenan's total. Why must this happen to me? population of 4,000 are enrolled at Why does the Government permit this University. A large number landlords to drive tenants into the of the students are recruited from street-tenants who pay their rent among the lower ranking officers of and do not owe their landlords a the Eighth Route Army. cent. Can not the Governor do something about it?

rent I can afford.

MECHANISED WARFARE All the students receive military

A former Shanghai motion

pic-at times of stress, the

studying at the university, it was amid the surrounding confusi learned. She plays important roles therefore, on the grounds of sy

with the abnormal - conditious in propaganda productions pro-Church has had to face, and duced on Yenan stages.

for what our church has meant Most of the public organisations during the past year, that we approach in Yenan are housed in caves and our people of the Anglican Communion

for further support. the university possesses the largest number, 170 in all

Compared with the ordinary city houses, these caves are said to be cleaner and more healthy. There are caves where the students eat, others

THREE CLASSES

Christ Church needs another $2,000 to be clear of debt, and we hope to raise this by means of 200 gifts of $10 each before Easter.

There may be some who have already given to the Building Fund who would be ready to give again.....

Donations may be sent to Miss B. Mow Fung, c/o Messrs. Gilman and Can 43 Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong, and will be gratefully

Will you help us?

I have been looking all over and political training after which where they sleep and others for Hongkong and Kowloon for some- the Eighth Route Army men return (study. where to go but it is impossible to to the front lines in Shansi and Ho- get, anything in these times at apei provinces upon graduation, Three classes have been graduat-knowledged.

while the others are free to gojed since the university was estab-

lished in 1937. I have a wife and two little chil-wherever they choose.

The Northern Shensi Public dren to support, and I am in des-The military training includes in- pair.

struction in guerilla tactics, war-School specialises in the political fare with mechanised troops, the use training of younger children. It was understood the enrollment in this school is more than 1,000.

A BOOK-KEEPER.

Japanese Villages Feel Growing War Burden

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This public school is operated by the Frontier Government with a curriculum the same as in the Re- sistance University. It is headed by the Communist novelist Chang Fang-u.

A Communist Party school, operated by Chinese Communists,

RONALD HONGKONG,

Bishop

J. L. WILSON,

Archdeacon.

EL W. BAINES,

St. John's Cathedral.

J. R. HIGES,

St. Andrew's, Kowloon.

E. D. ROSENTHALL,

Christ Church.

£7,000 DAMAGES

The war pinch is being felt in Departing soldiers have also gives political and some military the Japanese country districts, beer well taken care of in the vil-training. There is also a women's MISS BENNETT GETS where the supply of horses has lages, according to Dr. Nasu. school which was established for been seriously depleted because of Young men's and young women's the wives, sisters and daughters of army requirements, while requisi-associations, rural co-operatives Eighth Route Army soldiers. All of tions of barley and hay have also and other groups in kind to the them carry on practical training in Judge And British Films pressed hard on the farmers. At sents in money and in the same time the morale of the soldiers and also visit them with villagers remains high and labour presents in barracks. The country productivity has not been serious districts are cutting down ly affected, because the country amusements in order to be able to are overpopulated in give more to the soldiers, Dr. Nasu

said

Small hot spring resorts

districts

normal times.

These were two outstanding im-

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patronized by country families are

almost deserted; there are fewer visits to shrines; village theatri- cally have been discontinued,

resistance.

actress, has been awarded 35,000

The same general plan is follow- -- Miss Constance Bennett, the film ed in Shansi province where Governor Yen Hsi-shan maintains a

National First Revolutionary Uni- dollars £7,000-in her suit against versity at Linfen.

At Hankow and Wnchang, in

Central China, the Kuomintang Party maintains training school.for thousands of students.

Gaumont-British Picture Corpora-

tion

alleged breach of contract concern- ing the making of two films.

Miss Bennet claimed £13,000 for

pressions which Dr. Hiroshi Nasu, one of Japan's foremost agrical

When Miss Bennett's counsel at- tural experts, brought back from a recent trip of inspection to villages IMPORTANCE OF FARMERS

tempted to prove that she averaged in various parts of the country. Dr.

"The farmers are the backbone The Annual Pound Day of the $11,800 a picture in the United Nasu and other experts were re of the Japanese nation," Dr. Nasu Alice Memorial and affiliated Hos- States, Judge Burnell said...

"An English picture, even though quested by the Government to draw declared, "because they do not ar pitals will be held on Tuesday, up a report on such questions as gue, but merely follow the guidance March 8. Gifts will be received by it has Miss Bennett in the cast, or farm labour, land questions, farm of the Government or of their im- Mrs. S. W. Tso from 11 am to Mickey Mouse, or some other star, management and the amount of mediate superiors. They gave up 1 pm, and by Mrs. A W. Hughes is not comparable with labour power available for the their hay and barley willingly, from 2 pm to 4 pm The new made and sold to the United States.

without worrying whether the army Nethersole Hospital will be open Realising that munitions industry.

the British price was high or low, and often for inspection, and gifts will be re- Goverment repudiated its debts, gave their best to the army, keep-ceived on the 5th floor of the build-I still see no reason why British ing the worst for themselves.

ing.

Corporations should.”

WHERE PINCH IS FELT

Dr. Nasu predicted that the war Discussing the recruiting of labor pinch would be felt first not in the for industry in the villages, Dr. production of such staple crops as Nasu emphasized the need for bet- rice and barley, but rather in the ter health protection measures in output of crops requiring more the smaller factories. skilled labour, such as silk and Despite the favourable signs which fruit. He was also impressed by the found in the villages Dr. Nasu the reduction in the number of predicted that, if the war continued horses and foresaw that this could for a long time, the agricultural not be made good for several years. situation would become serious. He praised the spirit of co-The Cabinet is now preparing for operative mutual aid in the rural submission to the next session of communities. Each village, he the Diet a bill designed to aid ag said, is divided into sections of 20 ricultural production. It provides or 30 families for purposes of that town and village governing mutual help. The chairman of each bodies may purchase or temporarily section assigns certain men to work manage farms which have lost most from time to ime, on the land of of their workers to the army. The thes which have lost their prin draft of the bill has had a cool re- cinal

as a result of the ception in the Tokyo press, which These families are criticizes the absence of provisions give an compensa--which would protect tenants against

undue exactions of landlords.

Those who know

Insist on

ictures

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