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JANUARY 8 Black Friday. TV. THE NINEteenth instALMENT

gave Dorn the G'mo's answer to F.D.R. (Afraid to seo me with it on secount of probable blowup.)

Chiang says he won't fight. "The Japs will fight desperately. They have had time to prepare. Our supply lines are not good. The British, forca is inadequate. We risk defent. Failure in Birma would be disastrous. A combined Innd and seaborne operation is necessary. We can use the time Vy making an air offensive, for which I guarantee results out of all proportion to the force used,” ale.. ole,

Of course, next fall the Japs won't fight; they will have had na more time to Kilg in: our supply lines will be perfected: the British force will be "adeau- H.K.$18.00nte." There is no more assurance H.K.$38.00 that he will do anything then HK$72.00 1han that he will do it now.

What

break for the Limiys. Now Just what they wanted, they will quit, and the Chinese | will quit, and the goddam Ame ricans can go ahead and fight. Chennault'a blatting has put us

John Ward, our original correspondent, analysed the situation with a certain amount of insight, although perhaps with an ultra-idealis- tic outlook which took all too little cognizance of hard To his mind, the lonely soldier, forgetful of his home background and behaviour in his yearning for feminine companionship, seduced and ruined respect- able Chinese girls and left them derelict in the gutter.

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JANUARY

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Endeavouring for a for the social cancer,

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communications? for land

Why net urge America to double and tively try to sabotage it. A fine drank whisky. All but me, I still kettle of fish, And Ch'on knows! don't like it. I don't know who redouble the air transport system

I'm responsible for pushing him was behind this business, but I over the Hump, and pour zip-

into it. He might very well hate have strong suspicions. The whole Elica into the Chinese Army at

thing was bunk, pumped up out of large for an offensle at a much

20 - Lend-Lease a very minor incident, and en- inter day, and into Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force for direct figures, 10. December, 42. Entirely undeserved. On that as~ Japanese Innd, $3,450; Russin, 1000: China, count it is embarrassing, but continued aritult on Pappy's Nore and lame,

$120: nil others $51-In MILuckily time inover on and such He'll never be the same,

constat positions?

The theory that underlay LIONS! (Add for England 400 things are soon forgotten. So yank the dub.

Chiang's irritation was a simple million for shipping.)

We are pinched for personnel Put in a sub,

one: tokot China needed, above JANUARY 23-Oh Christ, He and everybody is doing trouble And let him play the game all wong arms. Let the arms or Ying-ch'in is trying to push T.V. duty. Do you know that this GRAINGER-On October

1840 at the Country lospital, about what he can do that now There are times I need a strait foton in, and the Chinese would Soong out of the play. In one theatre of war is the size of the

It.

where to Shanghal, BLANCHE CHA- they're going to let him do RITY GRAINGER, aged 8 Unless we get tough and nail the Jacket. Ordinary straightforward know best how and

we are getting along too fast to ton, and Katechi is at San -1-prefer-associating Stilwell's insistence that the use years, dearly-beloved mother G-mo-down-now-he'll get out of working would be use them along their long front we let's Root, lo indicates that US? Chungking is at Washing-

Maut for good, I

warned George with soldiers and sleeping on the modern arms was not merely suit hits, and he feels he must Francisco. A trip from--here-to- grund-mother and for

a fight. [Ho] told G-mo Delhi fa like one from New York before getting Chinng's messages ground to this bickering mi | matter of mechanical know-

I had al did not want to dent in Denver. And we have to hop off, and have prepared an ultim-ickering that I've gotten into how, but a matter of discipline. with T.V. Datter is much worried, over the Japs on the way. And ntum to be sent from Washington However, we are making progress training and mathe

organis

At his [TV] tea_this_p.m., the communication aren't deve- if George agrees,

If we can gel war it-1 don't explode, is may ation, het Chiang's theory head

well Ds in the NO HOME FROM the War Department to, be tough arrive. Something has happened on. It was impossible, felt St-He again spoke to him and said Joped quite as

JANUARY 26-Dinner with enough, and threaten to get out to Miny's (Madame Chiang) trip well, to graft American instru- he and I had arrived at several US, HOME

lock, stock, and barrel-we may she had apparently planned

ments of war on the ancient doc agreements and [were] even in

Chiong, apparently in my hon- Considerable reaction has in cough to offset this wense Queen Marie tour of the States, opernment and win a modern he is

trines of the Chinese Army and ¦ complete accord. In other tour, to-congratulate me on being

110 T.V. telling the charm nl over

A letter for T.V., thanking him fecorated. Very simple food and been aroused among Britishing. But if they don't get tough turning on

150 put ourselves In Chinng's the

keeping the service-hands for good,

place

The struggle gradually narroio-for his help and telling him I little ritual or ceremony, but oh! hon-commissioned

that suckers in line. Now she's how-ed itself to distribution of Humn was pulling it through to Mar- the atmosphero. In the presence men in the Colony by the air- JANUARY 0 Rumours

for help, so maybe thetonnage. The СВІ theatre shall and Stimson. Ho smells af of the Most High no one dares ins of views on the local to Madaire's mission in the United higher-ups the getting hep al plobal strategy was a pauper's sat in the Chen Cheng appoint- to make a remark or venture an

has whatever it was,

bitterin Statex], stitution problem.

Siluett theatre, and failed. What the hell is up? JANUARY 10 F.D.R. comes back

JANUARY 16 Chen Cheng dun pfessed Washington for more and ment and is going to block us opinion. The hushed silence con

tinues till a Pearl of Wisdom he can, tomorrow. A.M. office. Dor more material to strengthen it.

This week has been a bitch. dropped, or some brash foreigner thi at Chiang, "Why didn't you wall? caught three guys at my desk Within the theatre however, he

walla-walin over and asks if the melons came from I told you I was about to dicker yesterday.

1eas accused by every subor All this

You can see from the with Churchill. For Christ's sake,

commander of nagordit- over the same old stuff, pushing Hami General Wang in for 300,000 dinara, he tried to antisfy the and pulling

and worrying, has rigid

AB postures and strained of gas and alx transports gallons of

pressions that the sweat is run- hold your horses.

Dorn tipped off T.V. about my for Chinese Air Force.

The Yoke forec, Chennault's air force, got me fogged out.

Bond for CNAC put up $150,000 ning down the boys' backs. If set of conditions for Chiang. G-mo desires it." T.V. at 4:00. sels from the three-way split of gold to

and the Chinese staff with mor-

some Chinese

concern. addressed at all, the recipient of V. said for God's sake make it He says "Pay no attention to it." Hump supplies.

It wasn't paid; explanation being the honour answers briefly in a in form of agreement for him to

Ch'en [Cheng] due Ein Chung- In Major General Chennault, that it had been banked in Ran- low respectful tone. No argument, T.V. is quite Nank with sign.

king] tomorrow. Not hot for the commander of the US Fourteenth | goon. Bond put on preasure, and no question: just poker face and Feels he has done a great h

On arrival at No, 3 Dorn Air Force, Chiang K'al-shek finally the Chinese manager come icy dignity. The merry throng deal for Chiang K'al-khek, and Job gotten little for his phins. Thinks mei me Surprise. Staff ined found an American who agreed to him and said that if Bond was entertained by a movie that Chiang is beginning to see the Serbe pinned the Distinguished with him on strae conflict within would bring three planeloads of we sent over and which nobody

Service

Cross on me. We all distribution. The

Cal.

understood. There was a lot of cargo to Chungking from China echoed as far as Washing catia, the necessity of an efficient, pover had

drinks.

manager would pay kissing and swapping of wives 2 cable Told him (Chinng]

from ful Army,

the only American story.

JANUARY

17 in. The old ton In May.

him regular cargo rates, and give and at this point it was my turn Chiang to Roosevelt resulted in out. "Stick

to sweat. What crude barbarians for the sake it

JANUARY 24-Q. What's the we must still appear

to them. Chinese as soldiers. Has been tried

nault and Stilwell to Washington to short-circult

Ilim in me dinging at him every day along Washington. Couldn't do it.

to present the opposing points of matter with training in the Chi- There was a short training So

nese Army? The Chinese start on motors, Introduced by a shot Jay blew. Today the G'mo sent now they play it here by delay the lines.

broadest of a review of the 7th Division. hurry-up call for Chen Cheng and obstruction. They tell people Soong and Ch'en Cheng Latter general statement, then they do. I made some face by announcing

JANUARY 18-Conference. TV. any analysis with the Told T.V. that Tu (Yu-ming] not to come and see me at No. 3, seems

Definitely duce other things from that and it as my reasonable. would have to go.

Gave him

implying that it won't be healthy will In command. Spoke) so on down, In considering the making progress. If all goes well the dope on Tu. and TV. Pro for them if they do. Their only nicely of

US help. Agrees on Army, they begin with the War now, something will have been mised he would get his scalp thought is to hold on to their street action and no red tape. Ministry and General Staff, and done that the wise guys said was The idiot has been dickering with

If Ch'en

we go on through war zones, chi t'uan impossible. Lung Yun, and T.V. knows it.Jobs.

Lights says: The G-me does not

out, Regular thing to can now accomplish by the beneficent interven gave it to him. Maybe we'll get because nobody dares to tell him, mind their own business and but by that time they have ex- I've got to save my eyes. tion of European women in our revenge on the little bastard

watching Everybody

JANUARY 27-F.D.R. at. Casa- the keep their noses out of ours, hausted the topic and stop. What the Colony, who would up after all.

Ramgarh experiment. 'It must JANUARY 18 Conference. the hell, all the important people blanca.

JANUARY 29-Arnold and lift them to higher things JANUARY 11 Madame (Chiang]

succoed, More

troops should be Gavq Chen Cheng the pro- are in-shin changs divisional (and no doubt direct them has sent de S.O.S. to T.V. (from

a few thousands gramme Washington] to

sent to India,

and proposed courses commanders] and up. The rest Somervell will be in Delh! to- The Communists can- for at a time.

the Yoke force training is easy; grab some recruits and morrow instead of next week. towards an income comment her. She has apparently hugged not compromise; if they give up centre).

"Can I make it?" Christ, na. G-mo has

organised. indicated get the graft surate with their present un-down. The rumour here is that their military organisation, they general agreement.

The Chinese fix up the roof Can't they read n map? "Im- "failed her mission," What would she has

mini-portant conference with Wavell will be massacred, holy carnings.)

Omcc. P.m. nap. 7:30 to Rus- first, with the necessary It WOB.

Ex- mum of supports and founda- and Dill." If they don't come ID happen to the constant in-whatever

SOLDIERING

embassy for movies. JANUARY 14, LETTER TO Mrs.

is a profession sian

what's Chungking,, the G'mo with bo flow of young women from STILWELL This is one of the which, at every Level,

Day of War. Juno 13. tions. Nobody can swings cellent.

why furious. anyway, so across the border who could "mark time" intervals.

Taken by 100 cameramen. underground The only wildly from the ecstasy of ad- 42.

JANUARY 30-The Battle of not find remunerative cm-

progress I am making is straight venture to the bottomless depths Also views of Stalingrad-recent. fool with it? We take is hell of a

These of boredom.

The Russians are OK. Victor Hulut of pains with the foundation the Mud still continues. ployment, he did not say. up and down, and when I start

The frist five months of 1943 there.

and groundwork, and figure the people are hard to help, I have to that there are Not was any suggestion made to bite the radiator, some jackassere, for the CBI command.

keep thinking What a fight the Russians have house will stand up.

Tripoli token. kussions take $99,900,000 of them worth help- as to the plight of the kent comes in and tells me I must period of waiting. The fronts made; The nation has obviously

be patient. You had better bawere quiet. All along the thou found itself.

wouldn't be able to stičk women with a whitish baby prepared for a soured out pickle, sands of miles of trench, forhnte, work and

Twenty years of Saisk. Guadalcanal not yet cleaning or struggle. Results: ed. Elsewhere quiet.

It out with the other 100,000. to support. Or the family it over get through with this and jungle-outpost that Stivell tougly physique; unity of purpose: Indications of Interest in CBI. Even in the Gang there are

commanded, the

Somerveli troobs rested. pride in their accomplishments; Arnold and

coming bright spots and understanding conscious girl with young shoveling.

La China, the armies of Chiang etermination to win, Steila's de- with DILI [General Sir John exceptions who encourage me tö brothers or sisters whose re-

Kal-shek' held their lives against clear three days after the war Dill). Second priority now, only stick it out and come back for lations could provide only a

Japannese and Communista; in | Sim roof and meaere food when ever, are a different problem. Burma, the jungles insulated the started to move half of Mos behind Africa. Maybe it will more. This trip may give me a chance to get my blood pressure parents had lied. Or the They claim, according to Japanese from the Allies, pre-cow's heavy industry to the east. spen up.

LETTER TO MRS. STILWELL down. Having a conference with actually venting contact. Fitful Amer (June 25) Leningrad high-stepping baggage deter their letters, that if they had fean air raids darted out

other Qle Pappy has been over the Chiang at 5:00. I hope he had a from exporting munitions

lunch. The destinies 骂 mined on a good time and

pportunities for a normal their deep West China bases to fronts. Rugged young soldiers. barrel and in the wringer for a

I nation morning Every last man, solid week but this

sometimes Tough

depend Dn the despair the finest relife, they would not look hit at Japanese-held ports.

women. mand homes in Europe and twice at a street walker. If endless expanse of drudgery that

child in All men seemed trapped in an woman, and

the war begin to ceo light. I am frayed small factors. What a lough it is see the continual adulation all around the edges and if this to cffort. they were invited to Sunday stretched across the future as lar Compare it with the Chines has to be fought out all over and glorifying of smail potatoes The frank truth is that the dinner in a decent civilian ahead as the imagination could cesspool. A gang of thugs with again, I'll be fit subject for whose reputation grows in spite

of prostitution is

reach. Across the lump, drudgery the

of what they do rather than be Kea one

of perpetuating sanitarium, questo be solved by high-home, if they could accom- as the quality of flight-over the themselves and their machine. The other day as I reached the cause of it.. sounding phrases or Chris-pany a family to the cinema, mountains in ramshackle planes. Money, influence, and position the house. Dorn was at the gate all tian aspiration, by Homes for if they could go with a crowd deposit two tons in China, come only considerations of the leaders, dressed up with the staff lined was sour as a pickle. Never one the US. Bad Girls. or by patronising to moonlight picnics in Deen back for more, back again 38- Insee double-crossing, lying up inside. They lined me up and word of gratitude to

50-90 missions with the Japan-

Hands out for anything Joe planed a medal on me, and Just what he can get out of us. Water Bay, they would not ere and the monsoons

(To Be Continued) interest in their welfare by look twice at a strolling girl And only 3.000 done a month they can gat; their only Idea to then we

Getting to China. In the jungle, let someone else do comfortably placed pillars of

do the fighting: the community. As long as in the shadows. This is very drudgery was sweat and labour false propaganda on their "heroi

much a semi-truth: Most of dynamite the trees, clear the struggle": Indifference of "leaders" men are lonely, either by en-their social and financial undergrowth, move the dirt, bull to their men. Cowardice rom- forced lack of marriage or

"betters who enjoy these doze that trace over the hills. pant, squeeze paramount, smug- unhappiness therein, as long

knowing whether gling above duty, colossal ignor advantages are just as testhe Ledo Rond being built Easance and stupidity of staff, tota as young girls are grossly

tonuld inability to control factions and underpaid and frustrated in ponsible for the creation of from the Indian border

aver pet to China, when or hote cliques, continued oppression of ordinary jobs-so long, will the demi-mondaine.

Japanese would be driven MUESOS. The only factor that It is arguable, too, to in-the the problem last.

man saves them is the dumb com- from the race that the From time to time the sist that there is my unus, on projected through the heart of pllance of the lao pat hsing [the common people]. The "intellec- police make concerted the civilian population to enemy territory. In India, drud-

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servicemen into very was supply and training: tunis" and the rich send their effort to ban the girls from welcome

Americans teaching Chinese_how the streets, honky tonks and their homes. It is not true to pack a howitzer, how to bulld precious brats to the [Valled] as "Senior N.C.O." a sanitary camp, how to handle States, and the farmer boys go bar parlours. The girls are driven into sordid temporary remarked on Sunday, that wounded, how to sight a battery put and get killed without care, brothels, dark side streets at "we all come from kindred of American 758. Over and oner training, or leadership. And we are manoeuvred into the position cpain in the heat, each word. the mercy of pimps, and he walks of life." Frequently each phrase of instruction re of having to support this ratten come "waitresses. But the only common ground is peated twice by a Chinese inter regime and glorify, its ẞgurehead. JANUARY 20 & 21-Confer- nor any a white skin.. Can a spoilt, preter to peasant soldiers lost

Ch'en Ch'eng, and and tongueless in a strange land,ence. neither the police

TV. class-conscious For Stilwell, the commander. (Soong). other body can offer a cut well-to-do,

drud- Chen Cheng of course has to and dried solution to a pro-woman enjoy the company drudgery was negotiation. blem that has baffled sincere of good-hearted, courageous gery was Delhi and Chungking, protect himself. He gives up his

arguments repeated cushy province and tono of the same crude children

and and well-meaning sociologists but

commander's takes a job [the Yoke force) be Liverpool, London or Glas authority was reduced to the must succeed at. If he fails, his for many centuries past.

enemies will romp all over him; tish servicemen does, how goodwill on both sides? And his training projects:

The responsibility of Brigow, however strong is the fetus of a housewife's nagging,

Stilwell was preoccupied with he'll be through. Ho Ying-cir'in

India at ever, merit, attention. The would the men in their turn Ramgarh, the work went well; will block and undermine him if officer, who usually has ac be amply recompensed for but the larger training program- he's not extremely careful.

that Chiang will support him, cess to civilian homes and the the loss of their roistering, me of the force in China at must be sure of its ground, sure company of mixed sexes of beery evenings in the bars Kunming was just beginning.

Tha Yoke force plunged Stil- and he must line up everybody into the complexitiès of he can on his side. He's going his own class-and who can by the patronising hospital-well

The povernor alow; necessarily. Of course, also afford the association of jity of hostesses doing a duty? Chinese politics.

Chiang Kai- have to go over the whole thumn of Yunnan hated The situation cannot be hele his enthusiasm for cabaret expensive Chinese

30 story once more, and sell him the in ideo, Ho doesn't know, about giris comes into the matter resolved by words. Many divisions of Chiang'e troops no. more than the civilian people, many social and his province was nakedly forced. Ramgarh, he doesn't know me, he Ch'en --Cheng, toho had been doesn't know what we can do for who lives in the Colony, economic influences are to nominated commander of the Yoke him. Even if he understands, he These two groups are mere blame. If scoms. therefore, force, was an old rival of Ho Ying- doesn't know he can depend on ly financially capable of remarkably unfair to blame ch'in, the Chinese chief of staff. keeping their private affairs the lonely soldier, sallos or Her attitude to the development us. Instead of stepping into a

·ata. of Yoke strength. was coloured of the streets and out of the airman for conditions which by this rivalry. The gathering a trap that can be sprung on him gin-dives

We would still flourish. If not, ab the troops, long promised to unless he sees to it that he has The lively private, the single military establishment well, was infinitely slow in his enemies tied up. Ho Ying-

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