1939-07-08 — Page 12

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Chinese Guerilla Activities, Which Have Caused T Even Present In Outer Mongolia Though As Yet Japanese Position On The Peiping-Suiyuan Railway

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ALGAN, South Chahar, Inner there are practically none,

Mongolia. Chinese. Com- From what one sees in the cities munist fighters are trickling into of Kalgan, Tatung, Houho and Inner Mongolia from the South by Paotou, where most of the Japanese the thousands, but their guerilla are concentrated, one would judge tactics have failed to shake seriously the Japanese to.. be a the Japanese'army's strongly en- race of beer-hall proprietors, small trenched position along the Peking- merchants and innkeepers. Suiyuan Railway..

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In previous trips to Inner Mon-

It is either a tribute to the effici-golia I enjoyed the old-world charm ency of Japanese railway patrols, or of these frontier cities. But that a commentary on the ineptitude of has been dispelled by neon signs, guerilla bands, that the Japanese garish shop fronts and tinned have been able to maintain traffic Japanese music. The Japanese im- along the 500 miles of single-track railway lines in Inner Mongolia almost without interruption.

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The only important Chinese mili- tary effort in Inner Mongolia, since the Japanese seizure of the terri- tory, almost without opposition, in the autumn of 1937, was the ad- vance on Houho by Gen. Fu Tso-yi and his army last spring. Gen. Fu, who is the former governor of Sui- yuan and is well liked by the people, thrust to within six miles of his former capital. He was checked and repulsed at the very threshold of the city after Japanese reinforce ments had been hurriedly summoned from North China.

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it. When a shopkeeper rents s premises for his business, he is not content until he has erected a gawdy facade in the Japanese style, which throws the whole street out of joint. In some turies-old. archways have been de cases, as in Tatting, even the cen-

corated with unsightly electric signs.

CHINESE ARE TOO POOR TO BUY

A simultaneous advance from the Northwest by the old. Manchurian war lord, Gen. Ma Chan-shan, was also, frustrated. The double offen- sive, however, gave the Japanese a

As a whole the Japanese settlers read scare and forced them to in Inner Mongolia are a discontent- the entire railway. To-day every the Chinese have discovered that and the Mongols in that railway station is a miniature for region. tress of pillboxes and sandbag re the way of Japanese goods.

are too poor to buy much in doubts. A year ago, when the they exist largely off each other Japanese first took over, the railway was virtually undefended.

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and, of -course, the ever-present Japanese army. And the climate. they find, is inhospitably cold. They dream of Tokyo and its cherry blossoms.

Outside the railway zone guerilla bands advance at will through the

During our journey through In- countryside. And there is plenty ner Mongolia we stayed always at of evidence to show that the Chinese Japanese inns-usually made-over

Chinese hotels-where We populace are much less sympathetic to the new regime than to the old never-failing one. A foreigner tells of stopping warmth.

(Above) OLYMPIC GA Olympic Game Helsingfors, Fi feature of the is a high tower tically towards proximately 22 most platform view of the cit ing countryside 'striking view

dium showing t er and the gra

(Right) The gathered outsid lace cheering Ti echo as they cony, following the visit to the

met the sea as Switze friendliness ́andese insist upon th But in these inns we their native land. Tel 27778-9.in the street to chat with a Mon-learned and experienced something sea slugs for bre golian soldier. To his surprise the of the discomforts that Japanese and octopus for lu soldier began talking about the travellers accept as routine. Those fish and clams, Japanese in highly uncomplimen- of us who wore high boots were ob- dried seaweed, for tary language.

liged to mobilize the kimono-clad ty monotonous. chambermaids to help pry us out of variety, we wer them in the outer cold, so we would prawns, breaded cu not have to defle, the immaculate but always absolu tatami covering the inner floors.

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"When are the Chinese armies coming back to kick out these little island people?" he inquired hope fully and innocently.

In the railway zone of Inner Mon- golia there are about 9,000 Japanese residents, not counting the” army, and they are virtually all new- comers. Outside the railway zone

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