CHINESE LEAVE JOBS
Foreigners Volunteer SHANGHAI, Dec. 28. The. Japapese have notified their intention of replacing the Chinese who are policing roads outsjde the Internatjonal SetUement. A mesgage from Tsingtao states that owing to the Chinese abandoning their jobg in the Post Office, British and other foreigners have volunteered to maintain the service. Three Chinese newspapers have suspended publication owing to the disappearapce of their staffs. Systematic blowing up of the Japanese cotton mills has begun. The second batch of the United States volupteers jn the Chinese air force is en route to Hankow. Some have already arj-ived. They include ten majors who participated in the Great War and ninety pilots. The newspapers predict that within a few months foreign volunteers alone will form an air force sufflciently strong to contest Japanese aerial supremacy. The Chinese are planning to train 30,000 airmen in a year, of whom onethird will be on active service 5n March.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 82, 30 December 1937, Page 7
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