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Springfield Evening Union
SPRINGFIELD, MASS., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1941

CHINA'S FIRST WOMAN AVIATOR SPEAKS HERE
Miss Lee Ya Ching Confident Her Country Will Will Its Fight

Confidence that China will win the war was expressed by Miss Lee Ya Ching, China's first woman flier, in an address before the Exchange Club at Hotel Sheraton this noon. China is in a much stronger position today both as regard military and economic force than at the beginning of the war, she said. The big job of the United States, she emphasized is to maintain the Chinese supply lines at full strength.

3,000,000 Orphans
The humanitarian needs of China are tremendous, said Miss Lee There are more than 50,000,000 refugees, wounded and sick, who need care and at least 3,000,000 war orphans who need the support of America. Miss Lee spoke especially of the medical needs of Free China, saying that anesthetics are very  

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Chinese Woman Flier in Appeal
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Jackson, Mrs. James Jameson of Concord, and Mrs. Benjamin Y. Brewster, and Mrs. Roscoe Woodward, both Nashua.

"Resist and Reconstruct"
Despite the fact that China is in its fifth year of war, the people have adopted the watchword. "Resist and reconstruct," and while fight with one hand are working with the other to rebuild themselves into a modern nation, Miss Lee told the women. At the time of the Japanese aggression, she continued, China, medically speaking was emerging from the Middle Ages with less than 10,000 properly prepared doctors to care for 450 million people and with hospitals very inadequately equipped. It is for this reason she stated, that the $5,000,000 relief campaign was launched.

Some 60 million people, about one half the population of the United State, have been uprooted, transplanted into new and strange environments and exposed to contagious diseases, she asserted, reminding her hearers that the Burma road, China's famed lifeline, passes through malaria-infested areas, to combat disease in which tons of quinine have to be used every year. As a result of the war and the onslaught of disease, there are thousands of maimed and crippled folks who, before they can hope to rehabilitate themselves in new trades, have to be fitted with artificial limbs.