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Chinese Retain Bright Outlook, Despite War

Behind the bland, impassive manner of the Chinese people there's a sense of humor that is helping civilians and soldiers of China to stand up under this sixth year of war against the Japanese. 

Soldiers sing while they march, homeless folk are still able to smile and the entire Chinese population is confident that the Japanese never will rule China. 

These views were expressed yesterday by Mrs. Mary Chu, assistant director of the Chinese participation department of the United China Relief, of New York, at a tea and preview of the Chinese art exhibition that will be open to the public in the auditorium of the Snellenburg Store through October 3. 

Boon to Women. 

Another guest, Miss Lee Ya-Ching, attractive young Chinese girl, predicted that the war will bring greater freedom to Chinese women than any Oriental women have known before. She said her fellow countrywomen today are on an equal footing with the men fighting in guerilla warfare; they are cooking and washing for the troops, building roads and airports and assembling weapons of war in factories. 

Life Under the Japs.

John Goette, correspondent for International News Service in the Far East for 20 years, was a guest at the tea. Recently returned via the Gripsholm, from Peiping, he told of his experiences while interned there for 32 days after Pearl Harbor. 

He was with a group of Marines, and said the little Jap guards didn't dare mistreat "those big boys." "The internees ate food from the Marine storehouses and fared pretty well," while their guards ate a few handfuls of rice. However, the American prisoners had to pay about $1 a day to the Japanese for the food. 

Goette was born in Philadelphia and educated at Central High School and Temple University. 

Peter Fingesten, Philadelphia sculptor, did a head of Miss Lee during the tea. The finished model will be cast in bronze and sold to benefit United China Relief. 

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CHARMING CHINESE VISITORS to Philadelphia yesterday were Mrs. Mary Chu (left), from the United China Relief headquarters in New York, and Miss Lee Ya-Ching, Chinese woman flier, who were guests at a tea and preview of a Chinese exhibition of art in the Snellenburg auditorium.
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Philadelphia Record Tues. Sept. 22 1942

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