The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22
China Rendered I'm
stable by Communists
and Japanese
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country due to mounting tensions
and difficulties of the Orient.
The Communists are active in the
whole China. Even though the north
ern part of the country is supposed
to be under the control of the Jap
anese, the communists dominate life
of the rural areas. They are con-
tinually harrassing both the Japan
ese and the peace loving farmers in
the vast Chinese countryside.
The communistic movement has
grown by leaps and bounds in China,
due largely to the influence of Rus
sian agents. Communists force the
people of the villages and the farms
to pay exhorbitant taxes, provide
food and even make the clothing for
the communistic armies.
GOOD FIGHTERS
The communists are excellent
fighters fanatically devoted to their
cause. None of the soldiers receives
any salary whatsoever as they force
the people of the occupied area to
support them. Sometimes the farm
ers are forced to pay taxes many
years ahead of time.
Although the communists and the
forces represented by GeneralissimC
Chang Kai Shek are temporarily
united against the common enemy OF
Japan, many observers in the coun.
try fear that at the conclusion OF
the Japanese war there may be in
ternal repercussions that may prove
bloodier than the present conflict.
The Chinese farmer is having ar
especially difficult time in this perioc
of unrest. In addition to paying
taxes in advance to communists anc
| petty officials his land is often taker
from him by Japanese officials. Ii
road construction the japanese con
fiscate all the property necessary fol-
the construction and do not pay tn,
farmer for the land taken. Will
farms averaging only two to five
acres such a confscation is otter
| ruinous.
EXCELLENT FARMERS
The Chinese are excellent farmer!
and are known to exact every ounce
of production possible out of theil
limited acreage of land. They make
the land produce two crops every
summer and have profound under
standing of fertilizer and crop TO
tation.
With the advance of the japanese
military forces, the mission com
pounds have been faced with a spe
cial problem. Often a small com
pound would be besieged with a.
high as 10000 refugee women ane
children. The mission in Kai Chow
in which the Pannabeckers are 10
Gated, had often as many as 5000
refugees with actual facilities fol
but fraction of that amount. Th,
japanese officials always search tn,
compounds for the men and if any
were found they would be removed
for military labor.
Upon first entrance of the Japan
ese, mass hysteria swept over tn,
country and the paradox was ere
ated in which large sections of tn,
northern population fled to the soutl
and large sections of the south flee
to the north. This hysteria, how
ever, has subsided and the Chimes,
accept their lot with philosophical
/ calm.
ABSORB CULTURE
Students of the contemporar,
scene in the Orient are pointing ou
that this may be another case of tn
Chinese absorbing foreign culture
The Chinese have always absorbed
the invader into their own socia
fabric and history may repeat itsel
again as was seen in the cases O
the invading Manchus and Mongol
centuries ago.
This together with the ability O
the Chinese to absorb punishment
will make the task of the Japanes