Show fOft S ADVENTURERS ADVENTURERS' VU i CLUB W f w. w li i i i t t I l c 0 II i 7 J Battle for Life By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter WELL ATELL I hope you boys bOj's and girls know how to handle a aV V V pair of chop sticks because today vere verc going to China Were We're going with the United States marine marine corps but hut dont don't think that's going to be any special protection because Chinas China's a big country and Shanghai is a big city And the marines marines can cant can't t be je everywhere To tell you you on the hare and unvarnished un truth about It they t even en do a n very good job joh of protecting Marvin ln W. W Atchison on who told mp me about It It And Mary Inn Ill I'll have hn you ou know was one of ot their own bo boys boys boys-a s n a Marine himself All his life Marv Mary Atchison had wanted to look over China Maybe he had that Idea In the back of his mind when he Joined the Marine corps Well Vell If he tie did the tue Marines sure did right by him because the they tool took him there and gave ga him plenty o of chances to see sec all he wanted of the doggone countr country Mary Marv Wanted to See China China and and Did And AmI If Mary Marv saw Just a little more of China well that well that was his own mistake and not an any fault of ot the outfit Mary Marv was on the U. U S. S S. S Marblehead one of Uncle Sams Sam's tt 00 n cruisers when orders came to get out on the water and do lo a n hit of sailing salting The Marblehead hit several ports In the West Indies went through the Panama canal to Hawaii and then to Marva Marys entire satisfaction continued on across the Pacific bound for China Most of the men aboard had never s seen sen en China arid and like Mary Man were nil all en eager enger er to set foot on shore Mary Marv and a n shipmate were rere among the first to get shore liberty They plied piled Into a sampan and headed for the locks docks of the Lineal settlement and the first thing the they saw on those docks s were about a n hundred rickshaws all nil lined up waiting for them Marv Mary and his shipmate each grabbed themselves a rickshaw and started to ride around Everything was all right until u they decided to leave the International settlement and go over Into the native section of the city Then somehow or other the two rick rick- rickshaws shaws got separated and Marv Mary lost his buddy With ith his pal gone Mans Marys first thought was to get back to the International International Inter Inter- national settlement He lie hind had heard stories of the things that happened ned to lone Marines prowling around In Chinese cities Its It's Not Easy to Make a Chinaman Understand lie tried to make his rickshaw coolie understand what he wanted but the coolie although he had comprehended all the tue other orders that The Chinaman Dumped Him Out Onto the Ground had been given ghen to him suddenly decided that he didn't know what Mary Marv was tall talking in about Marv Mary had to yell pretty loud and shake his fist a couple of times before the coolie was convinced d that the dodge wouldn't work Then he said Me go back and headed for the International sett settlement I em e at Marv Mary itched v-itched the coolie pretty closely on the way back determined back determined that If there was going to be an any monkey business he be was going to know about it first But Hut the coolie didn't try any tricks until they were safely back In Inthe Inthe inthe the International settlement Then suddenly he turned turne the rickshaw Into a dark alley Marv Mary tensed his body and got ready for tor a n scrap but he was wholly unprepared 0 for what happened next The Chinaman raising the handles of the rickshaw high In Inthe Inthe Inthe the air dumped him out backward onto the ground Marv Mary landed on the back of his head and for a minute the blow sort of stunned him Then before h he could g get t to his feet n again aln the coolie let out a n war whoop and slinking yellow fared figures came pouring Into that nIle alley from all directions It was a situation which to Inns Marv's mind called for football tactics He lIe made malle a t flying tackle for Cor the tile nearest pair of his assailants and they went down Life Is Cheap and Murder Easy in China But nut at the same time Mary Marv felt the the- wel weight ht of a n dozen ozen others as ns the they piled on top of him kicking scratching clawing Flat on the ground held down by the weight of 10 13 or 15 Chinese Mary Marv couldn't move He felt hands reaching Into his pockets searching pockets searching for his money money but but he couldn't do a thing about it At last he felt a skinny claw groping In the right pocket pocket coming coming out with Isis Ills mone money What would those babies bahles do now Would they leave him alone now that they had what they wanted Or would the they kill him to keep him quiet or well just well just on general principles Life Is cheap In China I But what these coolies would ha have e done is a question that was never answered For suddenly the Chinese were on their feet again scrambling for the nearest exits A Sikh one policeman one of ot the guardians of the law In the International settlement settlement had had appeared at the mouth of or the alley slashing right anti and left with his wooden truncheon The Sikh had caught one of the coolies nn and Mary Marv grabbed another nother They took them back buck to the police station and Mary Marv his clothes almost torn ofT off his Ids back returned to his ship his isis head hend full of ot good advice about watching II your our step with Shan Shanghai rickshaw shaw coolies Sortie |