The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-10

There are the usual small buildings of main courtyard.
 The soldiers walk around the courtyard in trousers and under shirt. On the front of the under shirts are large Chinese characters. Energy, Faith, Revenge, Country" They get two uniforms a year, and pay 8 for slacks.
 Our boards are source of 11l- terest to the soldiers.
 Once in a while Adjutant Miao, somewhat in the manner of priest, lectures his subordinates in an amiable and companionable way.
 When we left Huailai, all the ad- jutant's staff shook us by the hand and got up to see US of in the bus that took us to the station
 Me yu chao tai, me yu chao tai" they said. eve have not entertain ed you. We have not received you wellD
 Chang HSueh-chung, chief of staf of the 18th Army, and his assistant, Major Tsai, are typical of the higher type of Chinese military of fcers in China. They arranged for me to go to Kalgan abroad the privaae car of Gen. Tang En-po.
 They were interested in our opinions. I said I could not under stand why the national government had not sent planes to North China. Chang went into long discourse about military reasons: China was weak country and had to retreat until ready, but would fight in the future.
 Chang has a son in college in America. He was quite calm and detached and gave us none of the usual official malarkey and moral talk. Major Tsai speaks English in a breathless, laughing fashion. He pulled out Charles and Mary Lambs "TaleS from Shakespeare, " and said he was brushing up on his English.
 I told them I would like to stay with them if fighting broke out.
 Tsai asked: Aren't you afraid?" I said certainly I would be afraid. He broke out laughing and exclairn- ed in English:
 "Humor. You remind me of Bradshaw" George Bernard Shaw) He wanted to know if I liked Upton Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis and called me an American Brad shaw"
 En route to Kalgan we took 8 Peking cart in a pouring rain. Co., ing down the mountain side was terribly rocky and we were jolted and slammed from one side of the cart to the other. It was so pain full that we grew hySterical and laughed so hard we couldn't stop. Adjutant Yao got out and walked.
 Distputes with censorS are inter- minable. In Chahar, province the censor finally permitted me to file news telegram but the operator immediately protested against my cabalese. He said was combining two words in one which wasn't fair. Such words as "life-like" he argued were two words.
 'It all depends whether the words are in Webster" he said, "but we have no Webster here."
 It ended by costing about $90.
 Mosquitoes are bad. I came away with shorts and a few shirts but finally rummaged around and found 8 pair of old SlackS. put these on as mosquito protection. The flies are bad, too. Just the touch of them upon your body will wake you from 8 sound sleep.
 Here's a breakfast we enjoyed as the guests of Adjutant Mao:
 Coarse rice dishes with vege- tables and meat, cakes, steamed bread. ,t
 Mao also served us canned fruit and canned chicken at another meal. These are luxuries.
 The soldiers don't eat as well as this. At times a huge tin bowl full of rice is placed in the courtyard. The soldiers pass by 1t and take a big ladle full. The rice isn't too good either, it has grit in, it. but 1t is something for them to be able to get rice in the north.