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The Toledo Times, Thursday, November 6, 1941

Makes Appeal for China
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China's Number One Woman Pilot, Miss Lee Ya Ching, abandoned her flying togs for a native costume and posed beneath a Chinese parade umbrella in the United China Relief headquarters, Commodore Perry hotel building, yesterday. Miss Lee arrived by plane to speak to Toledo groups on behalf of the $5,000,000 drive for Chinese relief being conducted in the United States.


China Will Win War, Woman Flier Asserts

Morale of Civilians High, Miss Lee Says; Asks Funds for Relief Work

China does not even consider the possibility of defeat at the hands of the Japanese, Miss Lee ya Ching, China's first woman flier, said yesterday.
Miss Lee (her given name is Ya Ching0 flew to Toledo yesterday to take part in the city's drive for United China Relief. 
China, she said, is far better organized now than at the beginning of the war and the morale of her fighting men and civilians–an even more important factor–is at its peak. Because of this China does not seek the United States' active participation, she declared. 
But the embattled nation does need a helping hand in the purchase of goods for civilian needs: medicine, mobile relief units, ambulances, care of orphans, industrial equipment and the like, Miss Lee said. In other words, she pointed out, China hopes the United States will help her help herself. 

Educated in Europe
Miss Lee, who is a beautiful girl by either Oriental or Occidental standards, has seen a great deal of the world. The daughter of a follower of Sun Yat Sen, first president of China, she appeared in Chinese motion pictures when she was 16, later received a western education in continental European schools. She took up flying, first in Geneva, Switzerland, then in the Boeing School of Aeronautics, Oakland, Calif.
When Japan moved into China she worked in the hastily established hospitals in Shanghai. When Shanghai was evacuated, her family moved to Hongkong while she continued her relief work. She saw 385,00 tons of industrial equipment carried on the backs of Chinese workers over the perilous 2,00-mile route to Chunking, provisional Chinese capital, and was a witness to the establishment of 3,000 industrial co-operatives in the capital which gave full-time employment to 100,000 Chinese. 

Helps Relief Drives
For nearly three ears, Miss Lee has been flying between United States cities and participating in relief drives for Chins. The present campaign seeks to raise $5,000,000 throughout the nation. This money, she said, will buy nearly $20,000,000 of relief on the Chinese change. 
The money will be used to help set up 27,000 more industrial so-operatives and increase China's war production to the point where and effective offensive can be made against the Japanese. 
Miss Lee was greeted at the Municipal airport by Sydney D. Vennedge, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Mayor John Q. Carey and a group of Toledo Chinese. She spoke briefly at the Kiwanis club meeting in the Lasalle & Koch auditorium and a meeting of businessmen in the Toledo club and at a United China Relief dinner for Toledo club members.