CHINA’S FUNNY WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2839, 29 January 1925, Page 3

CHINA’S FUNNY WAR.

FINISHED ROUND SHANGHAI. CAPTURED “AMMUNITION.” Writing to a lady friend under Iho date of October 23, 1924, a Dunedin girl, now in Shanghai,, states; “War is to.all intents and purposes finished round our way and soldiers who were camped at our railway stations, etc., havle been repatriated, many of them, joining the other army. Isn’t it amusing? Of course many got into the settlement in spite of the guard that was kept, and every day there was a report of looting and breaking and entering of foreign business places. The S.V. corps were out on guard day and night, searching the possessions and clothes of all refugees and others trying to enter the settlement. One section of the volunteers captured a lorry containing thousands of rounds of ammunition. They were in great glee —quite a smart piece of work, till on inspection all the cartridges were found to be fake, merely wads of brown paper rolled to represent cartridges. They were harmless, although they looked real. This is what the arsenals have been turning out for use in the war. That, combined with the Chinese habit of firing into the blue at all hours and on any pretext, will show what sort of soldiers they are, and they do not fight when it rains. They carry umbrellas when they march, but joking apart, the Chinese soldier is nothing less than a bandit. When let loose and given a chance, he raises havoc in the villages.”