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chains of small "vest-pocket" industries, throughout China, that use local materials and that produce manufactured goods for civilians and the military. These depend upon American funds to keep going. the organizers of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives have established three zones of industry: 1. Heavier industries which cannot be mobile are in the rear; 2. the main body of decentralized industries is in the rear stretching in a huge arc around the entire figh [[strikethrough]][[/strikethrough]]nated in camouflaged farmhouses and in caves; 3. A zone of guerilla industry is in the fighting areas and even behind Japanese lines. Many of these vest-pocket industries are so mobile that they can be moved on short notice, and they shift with the changing theater of war.

In the past year, Indusco societies produced no less than 114 kinds o goods, including textiles, chemicals, clothes, pottery, foodstuffs, minitions; and carried on coal, iron and gold mining.

All over the country, spinning jennies have been introduced; and almost every depot has cooperatives engaged in weaving, supplying some of the immense amount of cloth sorely needed in China.

If the conquest of China succeeded, the totalitarian New Order in East Asia would be virtually assured. While China resists, the richest and largest Far Eastern nation lies outside of the group of guns and greed, and the southward march of predatory armies is temporarily retarded.

China, the nation, will continue to fight. Of that we are all convinced.

But what of the people of China? How long can the majority of the Chinese people endure? It is one thing to have an invincible spirit. It is quite another to be able to resist not only bombs, but the creeping inroads of infection, wounds, and stark hunger. The people of China need American help now. They need it quickly, before it is too late. They need it desperately.