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Miss Lee Ya Ching   3   Dec. 4, 1942

armies. This woman used child runners - to send the food, by night, to the guerrilla hideout in the outskirts of the town. She also supplies them with clothes and when needed, with money. 

In northwest China five young girls are members of a band of guerrilla songsters who have dedicated their lives to making music for guerrilla soldiers. The girls pass and repass Japanese lines to carry on their "cultural fight" against the Japanese. Arrived at their destination, they give concerts or dances, songs and original plays for several days, and then move on to another guerrilla district. The girls' equipment consists of violins and harmonicas, two sub-machine guns, a rifle and fifty hand grenades.

Chinese movie actresses who lost their jobs when the Japanese occupied the east coast movie centers have formed themselves into another band that tours the fighting lines bordering the barren "roadless areas" to take amusement to the Chinese fighters.

Old Chinese women washing clothes in country streams form one of the most reliable sources of information of troop movements inside occupied territory. By night, they dispatch runners with news of what they have seen. Other old ladies serve as watchmen, guarding the hidden vest pocket industries that manufacture guerrilla soldiers' uniforms and small arms under the noses of the enemy.

Let me tell you a story that was told to me - a story of one of the heroines of modern China - a young girl named Lin-Ai.

Lin-Ai was trained in a Christian mission, where she learned to drive

 

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