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wounded solders after dark to a prearranged place. 

Early in the war, 250 women in Kwangsi Province went to the front with the men.  When the Japanese advanced, they turned guerillas and still are fighting back of the Japanese lines.  In another province today, active members of the women's units have been sent into guerilla and occupied areas to organize the women there for patriotic duty. 

Q. Miss Lee, What is the "New Life Movement" in China? 

A. An important work of the New Life Movement is directed towards National Reconstruction, and preparation of the people for more active participation in the life of new China after the war. 

The training of young women teachers to become "Agents of Progress" in China's rural areas is one phase of this work. Selected young women are given thorough social and political training.  They are taught to teach, are instructed in principles of hygiene and community sanitation, and are shown how to care for the sick and wounded. 

They learn methods of rural organization.  On graduation, the young women are sent to selected counties of Free China to improve social and sanitary conditions of rural life. 

Another project the New Life Movement is to stimulaye [[stimulate]] undeveloped enterprises in rural areas.  In a city in Szechwan Province, for example, a spinning and weaving experimental station, set up less than a