The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-05-05

alarm siren has just blown. It looks
as II we are in for another visitaS
ton from the Jays. There Is the
second siren which is the sign that
they are within a short distance Of
the city. 1t is 1887 exactly. All
over the city / hear the sonorous
throaty whistles of factory and loco
motives, as they warn all to get
under cover. AT 10:45 I heard the
faint sound Of motors but they soon
died away. AL is quite except for
the occasional locotive whistle as 1t
switches coaches and box cars away
from the station yard. It is now
1855, and there has been no sign
Of an enemy craft; perhaps we are
to be spared the thrill Of another
raid. I'm afraid that I spoke too
early for at HOO I heard motors
again to the south. Going out
found that there were three light
bombers over the aerodrome circl-
ing and dipping as they maneuver-
ed above the field. To the west
silhouetted against the blue, nine
pursuits swarmed above the field.
They twisted and turned cavorting
overhead as IL it were an air cir
Gus. could hear planes to the
south Of me again whereupon I
found that seven more pursuits
were flying south. Their object for
the moment was the aerodrome. All
this took place within the space Of
a few minutes. The light bombers
circled and twisted above the field
at about ten thousand feet, then
dived to about five, released their
bombs, levelled of for a moment,
then shot up into a steep climb. I'm
like other raids have witnessed
the bombers dropped only one bomb
at time with each dive. In all,
nine were dropped. All the while
gun fire ratified up at them
but did no good. So much for our
favorite indoor sport in Sian.'
During air raids all work stops
as people attempt to get to a place
Of safety or where they may wit
ness what happens in the Skies" he
said. 1.-THE latter Is the procedure
most INDUCED in by the adventur-
some foreigners, since the Chinese
as a group, are terrified at the ap-
proach of enemy planes"
Shansi, he expects, will soon be
entirely under Japanese control.
Japs have been driven back from
Fen Ling Tu from which they were
Smelling the Lung Hal railroad.
Train service had been suspended
but has been resumed. Yet unless
the impossible happens it will be
only a matter Of time until they
cut the railroad at either that point
or to the west. There is a. vast
front from Tungkuan
to Shanhsien along the Yellow Riv-
err, and the Lung Hal roadroad is
totally exposed, he summed up the
Even in the Orient war profiteer-
ing has not been kept out Of the
scene. Cliff wrote, "As yet food is
plentiful in the city, but don't
know for how long. All necessiti-
ties have gone out of all reach for
poor people. Sugar is IS cents a
chin (little over a pound), flour sew
en- dollars a bag (about 35 pounds),
and meat up proportionately.
Truckers are charging twenty dol
lars and more per person to Paochi
and Hanchung (for those who can
get a military pass for their
trucks.) In the cities of Paochi and
it is said there Is an
Of people; flour Is 81 dol
lars a bag. It is said that the uni
had to bride local officers
FOR the pass they got for their
trucks. It's abominable what's hap
pening behind the lines to bleed
the people. Someone Is lining his
pockets, you may be sure Of that"