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GETTING NEAR THE FIRING-LINE.

CARE FOR THE WOUNDED.

HOW CHINESE TROOPS ARE FED-AND PAID.

Riding the Eods.

are trying to all we can to care for wounded. Our-provision is far from perfect, but we are improv ing.

[This is the second of a series of three articles by Randall Gould, United Press manager at Shanghai, on bis recent trip to the Lunghai war front.]" KWEITEH (Eastern, Honan).-Two carly morning awakenings.

The real aristocrats of the train Yesterday at Esucbowfa, junt-rods the rods," not in the furtive tion of the Tientsin-Pukow and the fashion of American hobos but open- Lunghai Railways, I peered out ly. They had rigged repes to form

The Problem of Food Supply. from my car window through" a a species of hammock and had drizzling rain' at a wounded soldier lashed their boxes and pitiful pack portant matter of provisioning the Care in another respect-the im- on a stretcher. The stretcher layages of personal effects against the active fighting force-was described. in a puddle of water on a cement bottoms of the cars. Even teapots by General Yui Fui Peng, Quarter- railway-platform, open to an unkind were in evidence. The apecin! master-General for heaven. Both it and its occupants desirability of such a focation lay National Army and a man of long entira were drenched. But this soldier in its relative coolness; the great experience. was luckier than some of his fellows drawback lay in the drifting, all- about him on the platform, for he permenting yellow dust of this valley held a paper-umbrella over his head which once was the bed of the the sort of umbrella which for Yellow River until in a single night, eigners find one of the most subtly three-quarters of a century ago, ridiculous features of China's "joke it bodily shifted its course hundreds wars." Thus I, a foreigner, lay in of miles to find an outlet on the my comfortable berth, and gazed northern rather than the southern

out through a gray dawn at Hau-side of the Shantung penisula. chowin-back of the front of a Chinese war.

OF

In the course of my inspection I clambered ap on the locomotive, This morning here at Eweiteh I and it was immediately apparent awoke to the barking of military commands and the pop-popping of why the engineer and freman airplanes tuning up. Again I look suffered incursions into their domain ed out, this time to find a squad with such patience. He wound- nt Chinese soldiers marching back

or

ur

gran

and forth on the ground beside the ed men, dirty and bloody but all train tracks. A mass of light rail bandaged after a fashion lying way rails lay nearby mute testi- the comparatively mony to the army supply depart-face of the coal ment's provision for sending uptically to keep out of the way of the food and ammunition by modern engine crew. methods. With a roar, a red fight- ing-plane hurtled up and away from the nearby flying, Gield. The front had moved nearer!

A Troop Train.

Gara for the Wounded:

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To a new-comer to China, this might have seemed appalling. Cer tainly it could be no appetizer to A few minutes later the front had China before, and it seemed sign

anyone, yet I had seen ware in begun to roll up on itself like a ficant that these men were getting window-blind, for in came a troop even the rough care which was their train from the westward loaded with lot thus far In Hauchowfu they returning troops. But they were would go either to a new and still not coming back for rent and re- rather primitive army hospital or creation; they were on their way to a to Esuchowiu, where they would established institution, and in either more adequate and longer- transfer northward for the Shantung case they would received care and, from thej: point of view, relative The word "loaded" in the fore-luxury. If their cases proved ob going paragraph was ill-advised. atinate and they could stand the "Plastered" might have suited the move, they would be sent to still case better, at least as far as the better hospitals at Nanking and locomotive was concerned. Like elsewhere. flies around a honey-pot, the soldiers clustered on cowcatcher, along the boiler, on every conceivable ledge, and even in the locomotive-cab and up on the coal in the tender!

front.

the

extensively in reaching remote He is utilizing the light railway

points of the front and insuring adequate food supply. That the provision problem-is-a-real-one-is shown by the estimated monthly. consumption of 100,000 bags of rice, each bug weighing in the neigh bourhood of 200 pounds, and 300,000 bags of flour, each bag about 49 pounds, together with salt, tea and other necessities.

Rice and Flour,

We do not include the Chang- sha-area," for example, where food can be purchased locally in abund- ance, said General Tui." We give rice to the Southern troops-about four to the Northerners, about 20 20 ounces a day is the ration-and ounces a day. If the troops are mixed, we serve rations according to the customs of the majority."

about are very young, but none. Some of the soldiers to be seen are starving. It has been notice- with the townsfolk seem agreeable. able, moreover, that their relations Soldiers, get from $10.50 to 815 in Chinese currency per month, and while this amounts at present ex- change to only about U.S.$3.50 to a Chinese soldier accustomed to pay 4.50 a month, it is a great deal for

he does not get paid he loots, but ranging from nothing up. when he has money he prefers to spend it lawfully and keep out of trouble, which is agreeable to all

concerned.

The New Order.

When

Man-power in China is cheap. Care of war wounded has not here- tofore been considered a profitable investment. But times are chang- ing in this as in other respects. Back along the train there were We estimate that the National soldiers jammed into open coal-Array has had. 20,000 wounded in cars so tightly that when a dozen the present campaign," one military jumped off on the station platform leader said, "the rebels bave not it was impossible to see where they had so many on their records, could have been among the re- probably. The reason for this mainder! Every box-car and third-difference in showing is that we class carriage WAA of course, have sent back cases of even slight; direction, only-toward the front- similarly cram-full, and on the tops of the cars-broiling in the sun at mid-day-rade scores of others.

wounds, although we are trying to reduce this by providing better facilities at the front. Certainly we

Thus it is plain, even at the rear and this fringe of the front, that civil warfare in China has taken on modern trimmings in the few years which have elapsed since even the Government's own soldiers took their pay from the people direct, wounded lay where they fell, and the only strategic use of a railroad was two provide private cars for Generals and to run trains in one

until the resultant snarl of rolling- stock and failure of supplies brought an automatic end to bostilities.

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day,

(July 17.)

Queen's Theatre: "7. Faces." World Theatre Lady of Pave-

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Star Theatre" Jazz Singer" and "Scenes of Hawaii."

Central Theatre: "The Studio Murder Mystery."

St. Paul's College Bazaar, Lower Golf: Bogey Pool. Fanling Albert Road, 4 p.m.

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Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel,

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Star Theatre 1 Jazz Singer. and Scenes of Hawaii."

Central Theatre: The Studio Murder Mystery."

Majestic Theatre: "Ladies of the Mob.

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