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The

Retreat From The World

By T. Paul Gregory

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GREAT deal has been said and written about

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with me.

CHARLOTTE HALDANE came to China to see the part the women are taking in the war with Japan. This is her second article

ARLENE DIETRICH has nothing on me. The cinema has everything to learn from real life. Read on and agree

Two days ago, at 4.30 in the afternoon, I was standing on the roof of a-building in Shomeen, the Foreign Cancesalon of

a pair of strong field glasses in my hand (but I couldn't see through them).

tions of human society Canton. I was wearing a tin hat and had which are of ecclesiastical origin. These are, of course, the various orders of pious men and women who en- deavour to find in religion the peace, happiness, and spiritual satisfaction that is denied to them in the secu- lar existence of their fellows.

As I had raced up 140 steps to get to the roof, plus another vertical iron stop fadder. could hear the subdued roar of the Japanese bombing planes over the elty. They were saving their bombs to drop them on the Canton-Hankow rali- way line, a few miles farther on.

After all, there is fascina- tion attached to monastic life; for retirement from the throbbing, tumultuous, and care-bound world 'of men has always been the ideal of many a serious-

ninded man and woman.

Tus longing of the human

soul for

seclusion and

Hongkong Telegraph. quietude seems to have been

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Outlaw the Bomber

better understood by Oriental people, and it is in the East, where the practice had its origin, and incidentally con- tinues to have its highest de- velopment. Buddhism. especi- ally, has encouraged monastic life, and the monks and nuns, who constitute the ecelesiastical

interesting society.

Their division into religious orders"brotherhoods"

EUROPE becomes jittery again fabric of the faith, form

No sooner are the demands of one Totalitarian State appeased

an

and

than another dictator appears on "sisterhoods"-under the rule the scene with his demands, and of an abbot or abbess as the case

tarians.

may be, is similar in scope to a new crisis is born.

How long will it continue? the organisations which have persisted until recent years in As Tong, we believe, as the the West, and their lives are as power to repeat what has already much isolated from the masses happened in Spain and in China of the people. Indeed, the fac-

tors of their monastic vowse lies in the hands of the Totali-chastity, abstinence from flesh and wine, and distinctive ap- Their big stick is the most parel, as well as their dwelling

in monasteries or convents modern of weapons-the, unde-tend to emphasise the demarca- clared war which arrives by tion from the lives of those bombing of unprotected civilians. around them.

They have, in every sense of Democracy has superior forces

the word, "left home," or on land and on sea, but the will ch'ut-ka, as the Cantonese term of the Totalitarians can be im- it, and their separation is posed because the democracies generally complete; for like thetr Christian counterparts, do not wish to have their fac-"they have retired from the tories and ports laid in ruins world in order to gain salva-

tion." before their navies-can steam or" their armies march. They do

sorrow

☆

✩ not wish to have thousands of THOSE Chinese men and wo- men who adopt the monas- homes destroyed, women and tie life come from every strata children slain, their countrysides of native society, and the mo-

nations smashed by

which tives which actuate their choice are, naturally enough, as varied seemingly believe that no mea-

human

A nature itself.

the sures are too drastic or inhuman.

great many, especially

"have had their first It seems plain that if demo- young,

hard fight in life's battle, and cracies are to survive as

and

disappointment of partial realisation man's have entered so deeply into the struggles for freedom, the bomb-young hearts that life in the ing aeroplane as weapon monastery with its calm, deep against civilians must be out-peace, away from the hard, crucl world, seems the only lawed. Democracies conceivably salvation. Some have be-1 might struggle through another come sick of life... others major war fought along the come to the monasteries with a genuine desire to find religious classic lines between trained light, comfort, and peace." forces. They cannot livé on equal terms with nations which who become nuns are perhaps the most interesting: for not war as the barbarians did, leav-nearly so much is known about ing not a stone upon a stone. them and their lives as about nor a living soul in their snek that of their brothers in the faith. Buddhist nuna are of hostile cities. Our 20th

generally recruited from the century way of life cannot be ranks of those women and girls sustained under such a threat. who have suffered some tragedy in their lives, and therefore The bomber as # weapon

seek to find solace from their against defenceless cities and

sorrows in the contemplation of non-combatant civilians must be the inner mysteries of the doc- outlawed. The horrors it has trine of Sakayamuni, whom men call the Buddha-the "En brought to Spain and China are

lightened One." but a falut prelude of what is to come if their use is allowed unchecked.

Chimps See Movie

London. Peter and Jackie, two of the London Zoo's best-known chimpanzees, were taken to the movies to see the film "Monkey Into Man." In which they starred. Close-up of chimps and orang ulans, fncluding a dance, pro- voked the most interest fram Poter mut Juckle.

Of these individuals, those

These women are largely what the Chinese call tait-foo, or "chaste widows," who will not remarry, or maidens who having lost their betrothed, vow to spend the remainder of their lives in the seclusion of a nunnery In order that they may better understand the facts of Karma which have forced them to choose a life of single blessed- tiens.

Many, however, are recruited from the ranks of cast-off con- cubines, or come from poor and (Continued on Page 5.)

Down below in the town lile went on with that herole normality to which I had already got used in Spain. No panle; no hysteria; no distress. The quiet stoleism of a people prepared to stick out a war of suffering and horror, thrust on them by a ruthless enemy.

Up on our roof we had a splendid view of the city, divided by the broad waters of the Pearl river, with the Bun Yat Sen Memorial tower rising alim and upright against its background of green-clad mountains. The two American quarter- manters from the gunboat on the river Jiad scen the Aftech bombers go over.

We waited, anioked, talked. After half an hour their trained ears caught the hum of a missing engine; the glasses found up against the blue sky a returning. bomber making for his base with all buste.

I could pick him out easily without glasses, a nasty shiny little sliver mosquito. whose sting: meant devastation. The pop of anti nirernft chells burst round him like fcating dandelion heads.

No panic; no hysteria:

Bombers overhead

An hour inter I was at the station. The raid was over, the Hankow train ready to leave. The line was sald to be all right. As the passengers assembled they queued up to have their baggage examined by the local station police. The sol- dlers, bright eyed, disciplined, watchful, stood by.

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Rails Are

Bombed Daily

E found our compartmanit. Outwardly the coach looked in need of a good coat of paint, but inside all was neat and comfortable. The girl students who had come to wish me good-bye went home; in that leisurely but calm Chinese wartime way the train began to proceed.

As we moved out, the setting sun cast a copper glow on the emerald green rice-folds....A Chinese rall way engineer with us, who has studied in France, explains in faultless French that the Canton- Hankow line is built entirely by Chinese engineers and labour.

A good job. It runs over three important bridges, spanning deep rivers; these bridges are the daily goal of the Japanese bombers. On each bridge they have dropped, or attempted to drop, loads of bombs whose cost has already equalled, if not surpassed, the cost of building them.

Bo what? It is dark now, we slow down to a crawl. We have come to the first of the bridges. As gingerly as a man mountain-climbing, plek- precipice ing his way along a bounded by deep crevasses, our bis Chinese engine-driver takes precious train across. There is just

enough light

Waitsby, we can see the enormous craters on each adde of the line. Some of them are pretty close to the mark; so near, and yet so far,

Now we are on the bridge; below us we can hear and see the foam- lng river. A few moments, and we are over. Somehow, here in China. one tends to think in proverbs: for the first time realise the fuli significance of not crossing one's bridges until one comes to them!

And I feel more than a little like Allee looking through the Looking- Olass, as an hour or two later we come to a fairly large station, and a prolonged wait. For they have not quite succeeded in repairing

farther on.

These Chinese platelayers are little short of stupendous. Dally the line is bombed, and dally or nightly squads of platelayers, mostly farmer volunteers from the local villages, wait to repair it as soon as the all-clear is given.

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Oil for the Lamps of China

SHORT delay; the train pro- ceeds. At our vilinge station

we get out to stretch our legs. It is quite dark now. Everywhere twinkle the litle oil lamps carried by the peasants.

Oil for the lamps of China." Do you remember? I think-the help, the sympally, the support we can give these herole humble demo- crats of China-ihnt la the modern reality of the old Talry-iale; let us bring it up to date, ict us pour oil Into the lamps of China.

Farther up the platform a sort of wide large rough cage of bamboo

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poles is erected. Behind this are the peasants, crying and selling their wares; it is very sensibly erected to prevent them from pour- ing on to the platform, blocking the way..

On one side they prepare and hold out bowls of food; on the other the passengers take them; com- plete with chopsticks, and satisfy their hunger.

Is He Thief -Or a Smuggler?

N the dark, the lamps of China

lumine faces; beautiful faces of women; mischievous faces of little boys and girls; faces of old men, carved like seasoned wood; faces, resolute, watchful almond cyes of alert soldiers. Sud denly, a slight bustle and commo- tion, but no noise nor shouting.

In this orderly scene, however, enough movement to attract atten- tion. Half a dozen uniformed men. soldiers, guards, or policemen, move down the platform to the station-master's office. They don't. go inside so we can ser; we follow them.

A very respectable looking gent is in their midst. He is middle- uged, well-dressed, wears an almost new soft hat, quite a phenomenon in this country of wildly varying picturesque but generally well-matured headgear.

A nult-case is opened; and every- one suddenly starts advancing views and theories. In he a thief? Is he a smuggler? What is it all. about?

The gent remains reasonable and calm. If they want the case, they can have it. He doesn't mind. Is this suit hia? Yes, this one is. But those things belong to a friend. No, he knows nothing about them.

By Lichty All right then, Mr. Stationmaster.

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Everyone

Is So Polite!

UT very quietly, without any fuss or bother, the gent is auddenly enlaced with a nice thin cord, which goes round his neck and arms, back and front. Much less fussy than handcuffs, and somehow less ignominious, perhaps, because everything is done so quietly, and everyone is 50- polite.

Next thing wo know, our gent is sitting on a bench inside, with an. armed guard keeping an unobtru- alve eye on him. Gossip says they found a minute camera, and the thinnest of wafer-sheets of paper, stuck together, and that the gent had a girl friend, who somehow did not succeed in "making” the train at Canton, So that's that.

We resume our journey. Wo crossed our next two bridges in the middle of the night. I was The alcoping very peacefully. lampa of China are alight; they are glowing with a very vigilant and steadfast oil. They must be fed, for they are lighting the path of the future: to a good world for all. good democratic people.