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HONGKONG-TELEGRAPH

May 15, 1940.

Japan Bamboozled by Chinese Strategy NEW 4th ROUTE ARMY PLAY HIDE & SEEK

CHUNGKING.-From behind the Ilnes of Japan's Invading War machine, Gen. Yeh Ting, Commander of the new Chinese Fourth Army, brings to this remote capital a moving description of the way China is using age-old devices to defend its slender hold on freedom.

General Ych usually is out of reach and out of sight as he secretly directs his army within_territory clauned by the Japanese, In a rare interview he told how his ammunition must be vigilant Japanese nuggled past

Sentries.

With other guerrilla chieftains, his task is to strike swift blows at the invader, and then vanish with his army into the surrounding country- side.

Although a comparative newcomer |

leaders, among China's guerrilla General Yeh has already made a name for himself. His exploits rival those of the veteran Eighth Route Army that surged out of South China in 1932 for the relief of beleaguered] Shanghai.

Disrupt Japanese

The Japanese months ago occupied Shanghai Nanking, and Tientsin. Yet the reorganized Fourth Army under General Yeh has its base in

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THE ALLIED withdrawal from Namsos last week resulted in the

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"Cobber"

On several occasions the Fourth Army has disrupted railway traffe Between Nanking and Tientsin. This 66 exploit is the more surprising la view Jayan's nominal occupation of the endre territory from Nanking In central China to Tientsin in the far north

Another exploit carried out with beguiling secrecy was the stoppage! of truffle on the most important rall- way In Japan's hands. his the whort Ing down the southern bank

to Shanghal.

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"COBBER," the 21-year-old New Zealand, airman

the Yangtze River from Nanking whose exploits were reported recently, has become

Exploits cheer the guerrilla soldiers, Britain's first air ace of the war.

but they lead a hard life. Recently neral Yeh had to leave his army behind, the Japanese outposts, while he hurriedly erossed over 10 the Chinese capital at Chungking. His funds had been running low. Supplies were not coming through as they should. His soldiers complained of miserable clothing and poor arms.

Looks Like Merchant

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Reminder To Those Who Have Not Registered

For "Cobber" wm otherwise Pilot Officer E. Kain-brought down his fifth enemy aircraft before his Hurricane was shot down. He escaped by parachute.

Only after a pilot has entered his fifth victory in his log book is he unmetally. regarded as an "ace"-and then only

A "Pal"

"Cobber"-the word means "pal"

General Yeh stayed at one of the least pretentious of Chungking's hotels. No sentry guarded his room, and the lowest of hotel boys could -have upproached him without The Postmaster General, Mr. R. dificully. Such accessibility is A. D. Forrest, issued a reminder yes in New Zealand-was eighteen when particularly striking in China, where terday regarding the scheme for he arrived to join the RAF. on a sentries and guards are everywhere, evacuation of women and children short service commission.

The General is a well-built; rather, from Hongkong in case of emergency. stocky Cantonese. His black hair, He said:

which is cut short, has a few gray

His family is still in Wellington. Already, of course, he is the hero of streaks. His eyes are alert and his It has come to my notice that infall small boys in his home town.

Two machines have been shol face smooth, and he looks more like many cases women and children of: a Cantonese merchant than o guerrilla British nationality who

re-down under him. Now he is walt- in gistered

connection with the Ing for his third new fighter. General Yeh commanded the troops scheme before the outbreak of war, He was the first man to bring which participated in the ill-fated have since elonged their place of down a German Dornier Canton Commune, after the fallure residence without notification: and Western Front.

leader,

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were

On

the

of which he went into exile. He left there is also reason to believe that That was early in the war. The both the Communist Party and the many who have since then removed first sight that anyone had of him Kuomintang, feeling that neither into the Colony have not yet regis- after that victory was when he ran could succeed in

solving China's tered themselves or their children. upstales into the mess carrying a problems. At the present time he still does not belong to any political register should be kept up to date by gun.

It is considered desirable that the badly--smashed- German nachine". party. After visiting Russia and

It was his souvenir-and about the routine notifications, in order that it Germany and travelling through

co and when an emergency threatens only piece that had not been smashed Europe, Yeh settled down in Macao, the task of the authorities may not to bits when his victim trashed. Portuguese China, and Ilved quietly as

be rendered more difficult by lost- until the outbreak of war called him minute additions or alterations to the

In Hospital

home.

numbers for whom urrar.gements are Twice his machine has been set on The New Fourth Army has grown u front 10,000 to 30,000, General che be made, and a routine revision offre. The first time he was caught number of Mainian. said. It has no dificulty in obtaining the register will be undertaken every asiong

machines over enemy ter six months. recruits. For every ride many slep forward. Furthermore, the

All women and children, that is to His plane came down France. ormy has

out of the cockpit, established a training school for com-say, boys under the age of 18 and lie struggled manders and political workers, which girls of any age, should be registered collapsed, and woke up to find in- in three or four months trains a class for this purpose with the Postmaster self in hospital.

General, C.P.O. Bullding, Hongkong.

of 500 or 680. After a political Particulars, which should be sent by

worker is trained, he Designed to

post (no postage required), bre: tering luas been previously registered the of the army units, and itxico Name in full, full postal address of under another address than that now to educate his men politienlly, to teach them the meaning of war, to residence, name, sex, and age of each given. Any subsequent change build up their morale, and to see to child, and whether the person regis- address should be notified early.

I that they behave properly towards

the populace.

The New Fourth Army fights many | battles, but few of them are on a jurge scale. "We do not engage the Japanese in major battles," General Yeh sald. "but we achieve our pur- pose by piling up many small ones, iri which

are sure to be victorious."

It is well known that on several occasions conflets of various sorts: have occurred between the New Fourth Army and the regular armies. Asked such conflicts were serious, General Yell answered "Such Incidents as have taken place havel bera of minor importanct,"

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