The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-06

Madame Chiang ka1-Shek, wife of the Chinese Generalissimo, has written "A Letter to Boys and Girls Across the Ocean" in words that any youngster may understand, and any adult will enjo, giving "a true story of China for all of you who are trying to help our suffering war orphans"
 The Golden Rule Foundation, which cooperateS with Madame Chiang and her life-saving commit tees in China, has received 100000 copies of the 40-page booklet con- taining the Letter" and will dis tribute them throughout the United States.
 Madame Chiang's Letter" is brochure 1-2 by 10 1-2 inches, with highly illuminated cover and illus trated by striking photographs for fully half it's content. It is printed in excellent form. The frontispiece is gayly-decorated Christmas scene ,uith the caption Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men," The book was produced under most adverse wartime conditions, in English, on Chinese presses and Chinese-manu factured paper, by Chinese workmen in the far interior, nearly 1000 miles from the nearest seaport and more than 300 miles from the nearest railroad.
 The Wellesley College-educated Madame Chiang leads her readers through the sylvan existence of a formerly happy China down the years to the present. She tells of the children of China, their joys, how they play and what they play with, their customs and pastimes, some of which date from the time of Con- fucius. Then she tells of the un- counted thousands of orphans "warphans" she calls them-who have died or who today face death under the guns of Japanese invad- CTS. AS the pages of text and pie lures are turned, it appears that young Chinese are pretty much Ike young Americans, except in their present danger and destitution.
 Mime. Chiang in her Letter" de- scribes horrors inflicted by Japanese aggressors. There are photographs to illustrate the catastrophes of war; other pictures snow conditions when peace reigned.
 Soon after the war began, Madame Chiang took leading part in helping various organizations establish orphanages in safety zones," some of which, however, have been bombed and some of the inmates killed. There are now more than 29,o0O "warphans" being given care in these homes.
 "China'S 'warphans' are only phrase until one looks into the ques- tioning eyes of a parentless child and feels the clutch of it's hand as it seeks comfort" Madame Chiang wrote The Golden Rule Foundation.
 In connection with some of the photographs, Mime. Chiang writes:
 "All of the children collected here are orphans. But they are only few of the homeless ones who have so far been saved from the wide areas where the Japanese soldiers are destroying the helpless people and blowing up or burning down the homes of China Where many or them once lived, the bombing air. planes of Japan went across the skies, time and again, and, as they passed, dropped dozens of bombs which blew up houses and shops with a noise the like of which you have never heard. Out of the great roar and the flying pieces Of houses red flames shot up, licked savagely at everything near by, filled the sky with great piles of black smoke, and burned and burned more and more of the houses which had not yet been mashed. Only a miracle saved these children from being killed, or burned. or badly hurt. They escaped because, when they heard the planes coming they ran of, and when they heard the screeching of the bombs they fled screaming into ditches, dived into holes, crawled out of sight anywhere they could and hid. :. When the sound of the planes died down, the poor little things came out, their teeth chattering with fear, their bodies trembling, to find the only world they knew full of smoke and heat, blasted into heaps of burning ruin .. <. No homes, no mothers, no fathers, only the raging flames. {. It is because of the horrible cruelty that these little children remember, that they sob and are frightened in the dark of the night These orphans of but a few minutes ran away from death and destruction as fast as they could. fleeing into the country, in any direction, crying all the time, Mother, mother or I want my father" But they never found them.
 "Many of them starved for days. They tried to eat the bark of trees and the leaves of plants. They drank water out of the fields. They got