The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-10
Church Tunes Used
 As Battle Songs By Chinese General
By EDNA LEE BOOKER. International News Service Staff Cor
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respondent.
 Paotingfu, China, July 10-xA heavy rum bling and muttering of thunder, a lowering of war clouds. a vivid. sud- den flash of lightning and civil war broke in China in the vicinity of Pe- heretofore unknown in China ragged along a battlefront 150 miles long, with fast-moving. kaleidoscope ac- ton.
 Opera bouffe tactics-tine out for tea, for rice, for rain, which are characteristic of Chinese wars were unknown. Big guns boomed of the rife and the fire of tAe ma chine gun became a deadly monotony. an ever-growing number of dead ana wounded fell on the hattlefields.
 The Battle of Changhsintien Ridge
 (some twelve miles south of Peklng), which ragged night and day for five terrible days. is as famous 1n emma as the fighting on the Mouse. in Cha teau-Thierry and across 'tNo Mans S Land,'' in France.
 In the hills around Changhsintien Chang-tso-lin embedded his guns, dug barbed wire and placed his thous- ands of well-equfpped soldiers in the most advantageous positions. From the plains below General Wu Pei-fu stormed what seemed to be a stone wall of death.
 Guns Blazed from Hills. From the hills batteries of six-inch guns blazed, dropping tons upon tons of shrapnel into the ranks of the ene-
 my. In return Wu Pei-fu's ma chine guns gave back shot for shot. High explosive shells whizzed over
 head. singing a cruel song of death Cooliea wearing the Red Cross em- blem, carried the wounded on bam- boo stretchers to the first-aid field
 stations. The first day of battle 500 were reported dead at Wu's head
 quarters. Still neither side yielded Trains, camel cavalcades, donkey carts brought supplies and reinforce mentS. It was the arrival of General Feng Yu-hsiang'S soldiers which flu.
 Known as "the never-defeated Christian brigade" and wearing arm bands bearing the inscription. For God and country-kill and spare not. the men began a rear flank movement. With orders from General Feng. the l Shoot to kill! If you break your
 gun use the butt; if you break the ! butt use your knives; if you lose your knives use your fists; if your fists be come bleeding and torn bite." the men went forth to win.
 Singing, "HarEN the Herald Angels Sing.' and Bringing in the Sheaves.
 the invincibles carried all before | to abandon their hills and retreat. Words of Song Revised. l 'Hark! the Herald Angels Sing! | was my idea of no battle hymn, and 1 inquired as to the reason of its | popularity. It seems that on Sunday | the famous old hymn is sung as in | America and Europe. but on week l days-when the soldiers are on mili- ! tary duty-different words are set to | the music and it is known as 'The l Ammunition Hymn.
 The song which the soldiers charg- ed into battle singing goes some 1 thing like this:
 1 ssFIarll! the herald angels sing! l Pick your man and shoot to kill! | For your country and your God | Fight until the battles won! l Rouse your blood lust
 | Kin and spare not in the fray | Bringing in the Sheaves' also has 1 a weekday version, which urges the | soldiers to be saving of ammunition 1 to follow without question the com
 mands of the leaders, to look for the white of the enemy's eye, to take care 1 fuI aim and fire!
 1 Wu Pei-fu accomplished re- | marka!ble victory. for, with a loss o1 approximately 2,500 men of his owr i by wounds and death, he was able tc | scatter envelop and rout more than 5O,OOO troops. Besides this, he seiz- ed 3O.0O0O rifles, 130 field pieces, 300 1 machine guns. one million rounds of | rifle ammunition, 0,000 rounds ot
 artillery ammunition and 3.00C l horses