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and grass, before they reached one of the orphanages, half-starved and ill. Some have stayed in hiding for days, begging or stealing enough food to keep alive. 

United China Relief buys food, clothing and medical supplies for refugees; and supports the industrial cooperatives, which are providing the army with such essential supplies as blankets, surgical gauze, clothing and grenades. Many of these small industries are extremely mobile, so that if the Japanese push into the territory where they are located. the workers can pick up their equipment and disappear very quickly. American money helps to maintain training schools for the Army, which are caring for large numbers of wounded in the school hospitals; it assists in epidemic control; and supports thirteen American-sponsored colleges, making it possible for them to carry on special relief projects growing out of the war. In many cases, subsidies have been provided for destitute students in these colleges and other schools.

A major in the Chinese Air Force visited the offices of United China Relief a few months ago. This young man, with eight Japanese planes to his credit, had been badly burned when his gas tank exploded as a result of a Japanese hit. His face a mass of scar tissue, and dark glasses shielding his eyes, he told us the hair-raising story of his long trek through enemy territory to the Chinese armies and first aid. When the Major was hospitalized finally, the only thing they could offer for his terrible burns was vaseline. While he lay wounded, his wife was killed by a bomb splinter in the same room. This brave young flier, who has known pain and heartbreak, is eager to get back in the air over China.