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Burlington Daily News 
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
Burlington Vermont, Thursday, April 23, 1942. 

'I'd Like to Bomb the Japs,'
Says Chinese Aviatrix Here

Miss Lee Ya Ching Due to Speak Tonight 
At Dinner to Aid Her Fighting Countrymen

Miss Lee Ya Ching, trim, slim aviatrix, today found Burlington "as lovely as my native China," and made ready to fill a speaking engagement tonight at the city"s annual "Bowl of Rice Dinner" in connection with the United China Relief Campaign. 

Born in Hongkong, Miss Lee holds five flying licenses, including an international permit, and she can handle anything that human beings fly, from a small ship to a big transport. 
 "Some day," she said, "I'd like to fly a bomber over Japan and drop some bombs on those Japs."
 The money from tonight's dinner, set for the Community Y.M.C.A. at 6:15, will go into the yearly campaign for funds for her people. The drive started this month and will last until the first of May. Its goal is to raise $7,000,000, and Miss Lee says that more than that amount already has been pledged. 
 Miss Lee is as pretty as an American co-ed and just as bubbling over with fun except that her face tells sad tales when you bring up the subject of the war her countrymen have been waging for years.
 But her face lights up again when she tells how her people, now with the United States as an active ally, are stamping out the swarming invaders. It is to help that extermination that she came to Burlington.
 FUNDS BADLY NEEDED
She explained how badly the funds are needed indirectly by giving a Daily News reporter a picture of China today.  
She said that the lack of supplies, as much as the Japanese, is "an enemy of her country." She described how wounded soldiers and injured civilians are operated on by doctors who have no anesthesia and must use unsanitary instruments for lack of antiseptics. 
 She told of 2,000,000 refugee children of whom only one-fifth are cared for in refugee camps. 
 "The others just wander unprotected," she said. 
 part of the funds being raised now will go to buy medical supplies and part to build up "industrial cooperatives." The last are units that are set up in caves, huts and camouflaged places where refugees learn to care for their own needs by making shoes, soap, clothing and other necessities.
 Also, part for education.
 HORRORS NOT ENLARGED
 That horror stories reach Americans here of events in China are not exaggerated was indicated by Miss Lee, who gave a first-hand description of life under the Japanese.
 She was in a coastal city dur-
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Aviatrix Wants To Kill Japs

ing a Jap invasion. 
 "Those Japs were terrible.
Oh, just terirble. Inhuman. They burned innocent citizens after saturating them with gasoline."
The Chinese girl speaks near-perfect English which she learned in Chinese schools and later in England. 
 This morning she was dressed from top to toe in clothes of her native land. She put on a yellow Chine cape to have her picture taken outdoors this morning.
 "Clothes all made in China" she smiled, "except the cape. That I bought in New York.
 She is staying at the home of the Rev. Oliver H. Sisson, pastor of the First Baptist Church and chairman of the local Relief Drive for China. 
 LIKES VERMONT SYRUP 
 She had her first Vermont maple syrup this morning, and she smacked her lips at the memory. 
 'Best in the world," she declared.
 She looks as though she were in her early twenties, but she wouldn't confirm that guess. She tossed off the question of age with the ease of Confucius. Miss Lee say:
 "When you're in America it's a woman's privilege to withhold her age, isn't it?"
 And a reporter's face turned red!