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Miss Lee Ya Ching  2  Dec. 4, 1942

Fighting alongside the peasants are aged Chinese women, with the bound feet of the ancient custom, serving on sentry duty; and doctor's wives running secret kitchens to feed guerrilla troops. Besides serving as sentries, one of their commonest tasks is shoe-making. Shoes are constantly needed by the mountain-trotting guerrilla soldiers, for their efficiency and bravery as soldiers often is judged by the number of shoes they can wear out in a limited period of time. 

[[paragraph is crossed out]] The old ladies also cook for wounded soldiers and guerrillas. And working and cooking, they act as entertainers. Whenever wounded men pass through a village en route to base hospitals, they are greeted by women who tell them stories or sing. [[/paragraph is crossed out]]

Japanese are paying heavily for the folly of having overlooked the sturdy resistance of Chinese women. When in several provinces the Japanese military molested women, the mothers and mothers-in-law of the villagers used axes and meat choppers on the Japanese, surprising them in their sleep. 

On the day when the Japanese started their invasion of China in 1937, Chinese women of all ages started their own resistance against the invader, and when Japan finally is driven from the land, the women of China will have been in no small measure responsible for the Japanese defeat.  

[[paragraph is crossed out]] In a large Chinese city inside occupied territory, a professor's wife at the present time is risking death every day by running a secret kitchen to feed daring guerilla soldiers, dressed as Chinese coolies, who make frequent trips to gain military information for the Chinese [[/paragraph is crossed out]]