Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-26
How Chinese
W0menHeIpKin
Off TheJaps

country road on the outskirts. of Popping The
clay-begrmed troops, numbering hundred men, had
been sent out to the countryside for Chinese ge
rila fighters
AS these Japs their sub-machine guns sung
their shoulders trudged around the bend Of the road
they came TO sudden stop-ther ahead OF them were
dozen pretty Chinese girls bathing in stream that
fanked the roadway
The girls most of whom were undressed laughed and
ggge they splasaed each other with eateF Others
lay summing themselves on grassy plot that adjoned
had failed 10 see the approaching soldiers
For several minutes the japanese stood transhNcd
watching the cavortng and naked girls Then one Of
their number glanced up the troops and screamed
Instantly the young girls scooped up Their dresses ana
through grassy field to nearby wood
The japanese soldiers paying no heed 10 the barked
orders of their captain, dropped their and packs
along the roadside and chased the screaming girls Within
a few minutes the whole company had scrambled across
the bridge, below which the young madens had been
bathing and started through the field TO the woods
Less than hundred feet from the edge Of the small
forest the stopped running There was no longer
any need to chase the girls for they were not fleeing
They standing in the shade OF the trees dressing
Some waved and beckoned TO the approaching soldiers
The soldiers. laughing and slappng each other
over the back at their good fortune saunrered forward
The few who still carried their dropped them IN
grass The weapon had hit the ground
than the tiny woods filed with the crash Of machine
gun fire.
Before the japanese could realize they
been an1b1shed by glerrfas and ured into the trap
by the pretty Chinese girls half their number
dead wounded and writing in the bood-soaled grass.
Not one of the company was left alive except the
rapid turn Of events In another minute he surrounded
by Chinese soldiers dressed peasant
farmers who led him off to their secret headquarters for
questioning.
China's mysterious girl army undoubtedly the most
unusual military force in the world had another
of their strange deadly against Japanese
invader Operating behind japanese occupied
territory this Amazon army working in close conjunc-
ton with the guerrlas.
These brave girls work everything from sabotage
espionage, but their principal consists Of acting
as decoys to lure the depraved Japs into ambush Some
times these Chinese beauties work pairs in large
groups, and that's why thousands OF japanese soldiers
died without seeing the front-lne Some have
coaxed from their sentry posts by the pretty
girls. Others have been led off while leave. Still
others have been shot down in large numbers. the
case whole company ambushcd outside Popping
United China Relief in New York City which gets a
steady of reports the operation the Chinese
foreground army says that it impossible to estimate the
number Of laps who have been killed behind the lines by
the patriotic Chinese This figure they say countless
large Chinese city inside occupied territory the
organization reports professors wife is at present
time rskng death every day by running secret kitchen
feed daring guerrilla soldiers who operating behind
the Nipponese lines in the guse Of coolies.
This child rlnners-called little devils
who carry food by night the guerrilla hdeout
town. She also supplies them with clothes
and when needed, with money
Shadow factories which keep the guerrilas supplied
with small arms ammunition, and clothing, also are OPP
by the Chinese women under the very nose of the
Japs Older women, who wash clothes in the country
streams form unique signal and communication system
Whenever enemy troops approach an area, these old
Chinese flash the alarm. Night runners carry their
messages BY time the soldiers reach the suspected
hidden guerrilla workshops they find nothing but empty
Undiscovered benches.
In one Chinese village where the Japanese soldiers mo-
Tested and young girls members of the secret
women's army, aided by the mothers of the victims
swooped down the towns encampment armed with
nothing more than and meat choppers All the sol
ders caught in their sleep we're killed The sentres had
previously been lurcd away ny pretty girls
Another story tells Of a woman with bound feet. taken
captive by Jap officer With the strips Of cloth
she her she stranged the officer to death