| Show CHINESE HELP r ALLIES IN WAR Laborers Are Doing Great Work Behind Lines i r- r 1 NEARLY EARLY ARE THERE f l Engaged In Making Ammunition Constructing Constructing Con Con- Buildings Paving Roads Loading and Unloading Ships and Trains and In All the Thousand and andOne andOne One Ono War Industries What Industries What the Yank Is 8 Doing for the Chinaman By ELOISE ROBINSON Since early In the tho war wor there have bave been numbers of Chinese with the French and British armies In France France- sot in the fighting line but in that e 8 enormous army of laborers laborel's which makes stakes it possible to carry on the war Nearly a hundred thousand of these I ire are working with the British In northera northern northern north north- ern era France and ami m more re than forty thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand more are scattered nil all over the country with the French Now the they are coming Into the American lines In large numbers Most of these men come from Crom northern northern northern north north- ern ern and central China and for tor the same reasons that many of our American Ameri- Ameri can boys came to France before the United States Stales entered the war Some of them were attracted ted by the high pay and the chance to better their own condition some of them out of pure pare love of adventure still others because because be be- cause of their appreciation of what this struggle means In their own future futuro fu tu ture turo history And there are too not a few tew Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese scholars and men of some distinction distinction dis dis- in their own country who have been for forced ed to leave for political reasons as well as young students from England or America They are engaged in making ammunition in the construction of buildings In paving roads in loading and unIon unloading ding ships end and trains trains trains-In In all the thousand and andone andone andone one war industries that have hae directly directly direct direct- ly Jy and indirectly to do with the maintaining maintaining main main- of the allied armies In France I Lack of Understanding Merely for the sake of ot efficiency It is of importance that a n feeling of mutual understanding and sympathy should exist between the Yank and the ChInaman Chinaman Chinaman Chi ChI- naman who has come to be his neigh neigh- bor bore Officials recognize its military value and have haye met with appreciation the efforts of the Y M. M C. C A. A which Is carrying on the work In most of the camps where Chinese are located Most of or the difficulties were due to lack of understanding For Instance a quiet working hard Chinaman had some trouble with his eyes and was ordered to the only place where he could have protection from the light which happened to be the guardhouse N No doubt the Yank tried to explain to him on the way Just why he was beIng being be be- ing lug sent there but his efforts were not noticeably successful All that ChIng C Chinaman could comprehend and all that his friends could comprehend was that he be was being shut up In the Hel Hsi Wu Tso Teo when he had committed no offense Or when the energetic doughboy doughboy doughboy dough dough- boy wanted to hasten along the deliberate deliberate dellb- dellb erate coolie he would wave his arms wildly In the air and aud with the idiotic Instinct we all nIl have e to lJ believe that the man who does not speak our language lan Inn language guage Is hard of hearing yell at nt the top of ot his lungs Come on you fellows lets let's go Unfortunately however go hO in ChInese Chinese Chinese Chi ChI- nese means menns dog the laborers supposed they were being bawled out for some Inexplicable reason and there re might have been trouble had bad not a Y T see sec secretary who had once been a missionary to China straightened things out As AsIt AsIt Asit It was coolie and doughboy went off ot together with grins on their faces can enn appreciate a Joke as aswell aswell aswell well as Yanks and a new word vord was added to their vocabularies Anxious to Learn Some of the men have already picked up a considerable rable knowledge of French and they are eager to learn English Both American officers and enlisted men have volunteered to conduct conduct conduct con con- duct classes in English Beyond the Immediate benefit to the themen themen themen men themselves and their increased efficiency to the army there is II a larger benefit of this work with ChIng China China- man After the war he Is going home to the Interior of China to be looked up to by his friends and relatives and by the whole community as a man of Information and Importance He TIe will willbe willbe be a leader In his village and his word will carry weight The engineers directing Chinese work will be among those to go to China to have a share In the great Industrial development which Is sure to come at the close of the war |
