Show Chinese Can Take It No Secret 3 Secret 3 Secret Ports Smuggling Beat Blockade This is the last of three stories by an American Y M. M C. C A. A di director director dl- dl rector who has been in the thick of the whole Sino-Japanese Sino war By GEORGE A FITCH Even the staggering blows of the three-month three closing of the Burma road and the apparently permanent closing of the IndoChina IndoChina IndoChina Indo- Indo China lifeline into China have not stumped the Chinese in their efforts to keep needed military supplies coming in On my to from Hong Kong last May I traveled a route that well illustrates illustrates illus illus- ilius' ilius the ways ways China has developed developed developed de de- de- de in evading the blockade The Kowloon Canton-Kowloon railway from Hong Kong took me to at the eastern extremity of the British leased territory and thence by steamer across bay into the small port of in Chinese territory Twenty miles to the west the Japanese were in occupation holding all the area surrounding Canton itself had been taken by the Japanese two years ago but has changed hands more that once Here the beach was literally covered with bales and drums quantities of kerosene and oil military materials machinery even cigarettes destined for free China tin tung oil paper and tea destined for the outside world I hiked through the hills over overa a low divide to the next depot Over the entire 20 miles a double stream of carrIers carriers carriers car car- mostly women were plodding plodding plodding plod plod- ding to and from the sea thinking thinking thinking think think- ing nothing of a load of 75 pounds on each end of a bamboo carryIng carrying carrying carry carry- ing pole At the freight is loaded on boats and carried up the East river for distribution distribution distribution tion throughout free China Two days after I left ng the Japanese bombed the beach but did little damage for supplies are kept ept well scattered The average time for freight covering this bustling trade route from Hong Kong to Is eight days though a fleet of bi bicyclists bicyclists bicyclists bi- bi cyclists maintain a two and a half day service over the road for mail and for passengers tough enough to take it it You ride pillion seated on a luggage carrier carrier carrier car car- rier over the rear wheel while the man at the handlebars pedals pedals pedals ped ped- als madly over temporary temporary temporary tem tem- bridges and the debris of many a battlefield BLOCKADE FAR FROM FRO TIGHT AIR In I saw saw sawa a vivid example of the efficiency with which the Chinese government is carrying on I called on Y C. C Koo commissioner of finance for in his headquarters in a limestone cave a few miles outside the city The Japanese know the location location location loca loca- tion of the cave and have re repeatedly repeatedly repeatedly re- re tried to blast him out But he and his staff manage to collect provincial taxes under the very noses of the Japanese Japanese Japanese-in in areas which on maps are claimed by the Japanese Japanese and and have actually actually actually ac ac- ac- ac increased the governments government's revenue over the prewar figure without imposing hardships or raising the rates The Japanese blockade of the coast of China is far from air air- tight The Chinese junk captain is famous as a blockade runner and many are now risking their lives in this dangerous work The coast is indented with many small harbors and smuggling provides a thin but continual stream of imports In and a system of smuggling smuggling smuggling smug smug- gling is carried on with the connivance connivance connivance con con- of corruptible Japanese authorities In many such cities there are Japanese concessionaires concessionaires concessionaires concession concession- aires who for a consideration will undertake to get almost any cargo past military and naval officials Some of the northern guerilla forces actually get supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies through where they have to pass through the Japanese military lines A friend of mine told of seeing a clip of cartridges pass from the hand of a Japanese sentry into the sleeve of a Chinese who was being searched at the barricade at the edge of the concession Many Japanese officers have made fortunes at such business The narcotics traffic amounting to Chinese currency monthly in the area alone is also enriching many officers officers officers of of- and adds to the temptation temptation temptation tion of men in do the lower ranks The famous Russian road can never be of great importance in transporting the heavy q rials China needs Incident tb all shipments over this road d road z tr not to the communist a army ann China b but l to c d of the Central Jo a gover government represent 2 f I I found no evidence at all ti that the special border area i by the communist Eighth army is subjected to any tw rou rya g Jo I cial Russian influence q 1 Pictures of Sun Yat-sen Yat a w 84 Generalissimo Chiang were 7 aJ ways central in the offic offices schools I schools visited in the CO coo area Not once did I see the red fed fk 1 of the U U. S. S S S. S R R. I found fanny evidence of money or s n coming to this area direct frO Cl frog Russia There was not a Ruas RuaS adviser in the whole area Xi 10 airplanes were coming to ft thi troops from Russia for they I m hai none Mao ao tung Tse-tung their political poW t tp trangy i leader t told me quite frankl franS rangy We do not want Moscow to bt tf planted p anted in China He was waa o fa In that his forces were with the rest of China in the com coa mon determination to resist la J. Jl pan Further the distil I center for supplies frog Russia is decidedly fist To my mind Russian a adI is going to China not in ex eS tt I change for some sort of lien or pr mortgage on Chinas China's future b bot simply because Russia p prefer fm a strong independent Chinas China rt lith which the U. U S. S S S. S R. R may trade had freely instead of a Japan cons trolled China with neither opts cw ports nor open door j The position of communism In 11 China is far different today fr frog 3 what it was in the days of Bo Borodin Born Boro- din and Bluecher in 1927 Fn the capture of Chiang in Sian ii ia ii 1936 to date the Chinese con com have shown to be first Chinese and seconds seconds- J communist and even their communism con com 1 emphasizes el eliminate corruption usury absentee land land- opium and destitution Thus it is more like an agrarian reform or even Chiang Chiang's New Net I Life movement than SOLDIER COMES IES INTO ins IllS OWN t Generalissimo Chiang Kal shi Kal-shi r 1 feels that China is fighting III fie ft worlds world's battle for demoro r. r When I saw him just MOT before 1 I left he was as rites uC as fresh as alert as ever H Ei Es' Essaid said to me Chinas war of resistance b Ii not only to her own benefito benefit benefi W to the benefit of the whole far bi east and the entire world Fulfillment of that or wish however rests not on in the personality of Chiang bo- bo self but also in the makeup the Chinese soldier Through the past the soldier has been the bottom of the Chinese s I ladder The scholar the theof theof theof of learning was at the top 1 Tf I e farmer came next because tj ti s fed the people Then the arua artI the craftsman Below him ti tw merchant and at the very k Mj tom torn the soldier But today todar Hi er soldier is coming into his or rai r e He knows what he is fighting fa faTo To be sure among the i imen men under arms in China tads to there are some of the old cd war type carrying grass ru Or caps perhaps even umbrellas B III their backs But even anc these poorly trained soldiers soldier lb spirit is much the same Ja Jap Japis is the invader of their Jan land to tI despoiler of their homes tI b violator of their women and are ready to fight to the dui dul to drive that enemy out cut I |