Mr. Ho Yu's appeal to the public to give preference in employment to those men who were interpreters with the Chinese Labour Corps is' one which should not go unheeded. They were an extraordinarily valuable set of men to us during the war, and without them it is difficult to see how by far the greater part of the work performed by the Chin ese could have been carried throug! In a great many cases an N.-O. who was disabled or through illu placed in a non-combatant category, was in charge of a gang of cooties. and wonderful though the sotdier's methods of making himself urder-stood were, he could in these cases hardly have been able to cary out his duties. We shall only be doing right if woe regard these men as comrades in arms, for sssavecly we required their help to win the war. For these sentimental reasons the appeal is good, and should receive attention, but there is also the fact of their wider experience to be kept in mind. Although he was following his profession o> pursuing his job, however humble that might be. the man who was at the gaining a vast and varied experience of human nature and the wi in some ways actually more valuable than had he spent: nese years. at ithe desk or bench, and we believe that business men will be quick to appreciate that element in those ex-interpreters.
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