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New Chinese

Army Ten

Million Strong

By LOUISE MORGAN

A NEW Chinese ärmy ten millions strong-the big- gest conscript army ever raised in any country-was described to me by Dr. Sun Fo, President of the Chinese Legislative Yuan, when he arrived in London recently.

It has been secretly assembled and trained,in many different parts of the Western provinces over the past 14 or 15 months, since conscription came into force.

Most of the soldiers are young country lads, tough fighters, who will go through anything to save their country from uggres- sion.

Nobody except the Generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek, knows the whereabouts of this mystery army or the date of the big SPOTLIGHT

offensive for which it is now be ing intensively prepared.

ON

Secret munitions factories, scattered

GERMANYtke the soldiers over an enormous ter-

ALL LORRIES TO

USE GAS

ritory to escape Japanese bomba, have sprang up by the thousands in the

west. The Chinese have worked out

a system of small-scale mass produc- tion In miniature faclories tucked like villas among the green mountains. waterfalls and winding valleys. streams.

Hidden From Plancs

The gravity of Germany's 'petrol shortage is shown by an order for the compulsory conversion to gas of all' motor-lorries over 30cwt. It is a "They are so situated that they are long-term programme, which in-completely lavisible from the air," spid dicates how little faith the Govern-Dr. Sun. ment has in Russian supplies.

the with A start is to be minde heaviest vehicles, which use the most petrol. Owners will receive orders telling them where to take their lor- ries for conversion, and imposing time-limit.

The European war is interfering very little with the flow of necessary supplies to China, he told me.

The trude treily with Russia which he signed in Moscow last June is now in operation with a free

exchange.

China gets munitions and machinery

mony.

Since the range of gas-propelled and sends tea and the more valuable vehicles is short, the order will apply metals, such as tungsten and anti- only to lorries guraged within six

The Best Source The miles of a gas-producing plant. authoritics promise, however, to "The Soviet Union has given us establish a "close network" of such more help and more material than any plants all over the Reichs.

other source," sald Dr. Sun. Manufacturing "Victories"

From America supplies, such 115 petrol and steel. farm machinery and While the German High Command lorries, arrive unimpeded by way of day after day has "nothing particular China's back door through Burma,

to report," propagandist ilm-makers proceeding along the great "peasant are more reprenful. They are road" built with the bare hands of manufacturing Western Front "vic-millions of Chinese tillers of the good torics" somewhere in Bohemin.

earth.

Travellers turuhing from there are The third successive bumper har- Only reported by Reuter ng watching the vest has filled China's stores. making of a picture in which the in the Hood areas Is there any want Czoch fortifications surrendered

and all these areas are in Japanese

year ago provided a "Maginot Line" occupation. background. A brigade of German Dr. Sun thinks war-time London is soldiers, costumed În French 'uni-"as good as a play." forms, manned defences which were gallantly stormed by Nazi troops.

When Looting-Is~Pardonable-

"It is interesting to find how much more seriously you take war than we do-You-have-changed-the-face-of- Landon and blacked out the whole

To reassure the civil population country. And there has not been vie behind the Siegfried Line the German | single bomb!

High Command hus issued new und "In China we have no black-oul. more stringent-sounding regulations But if we hear a raid coming we pat against looting and scrounging" by out the lights naturally,” the troops. Life imprisonment ori shooting are prescribed as penalties

in extreme roses,

"But," adds the order; "the acquisi- tion in case of urgent need of cloth- ing, equipment, provisions (whether) necessaries Juxurles), fodder, fuel. vehicles, petrol and other require- ments, shall not be regarded as loot- ing."

No New Clothes For Christmas

THREE WHALE TWINS

Antarctic Season Yields Unusual Find

Washington, Dec. 20. American whalers have returned from the Antarctic with stories of Anding three rets of whale twins during last season's catch.

One feature of the new clothes Four of the twins, yet unborn, were ratloning order is causing particular in two finback whales. The mother dismay. Germans will be able to of the other set was a bly blue whale. buy scarcely any new clothes for it is rare for the rea-going stork to Christmas. of their 100 coupons bring twin whales, they inny use only 30 before the end The three sets of twins were the of the year. Little ean be obtained only ones found In the season's catch with these,

of 2,201 whales, from which was

processed 7,150,700 gallons of oll, 216 A woman might buy a nightdressons of bone and 398 tons of meat and one handkerchlel, or half a dozen i ferillizer, oft valued at $3,250,000.--- pairs of stockings and half a dozen United Press. handkerchicts. A man could obtain

a sweater, or alternatively a pair of rived just in time to take them away pyjamas, a collar and a handkerchief.

A new suit or,cosume would be well in lorries. beyond the reach of either.

Cathedral Treasures "Saved"

Films also contribute another piece of Nazi propaganda. Now being screened is n picture showing how German soldiers "saved" sacramental vessels and other treasures from the burning cathedral at Lublin.

War Soap From Coali

to are

The Germans

produce tha synthetic fat from coal, states

correspondent of the Frankfort Copenhagen "Politiken." . Among other things this will be used for a special type of war soap.

A new company has been formed to produce the fat Another com-

In fact, the cathedral was on fire pany with seven factories is trying to before the Germans entered the city, extract the utmost from several and it was the citizens who brought, thousand tons of whale oll which it out their treasures. The Nazis ar-has received.

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