"AN wounded are evacuated, They fare carried in stretchers milos away from the Aghting: then villagers, lurider the supervision of Chinese doc tors and nurses, nurse them to health amidst their, own surroundings. rangements for dressing the wounded are excellent, The 8th Route Army saves even seriously wounded, but suffers from a shortage of medical supplies and on entire absence of anaesthetics."
Mrs Smedley, who was clad in a Kkhakkt tunic, breeches and. puttees, mentioned that the sh Route Army Was frequently attacked by Japanese planes while she was there, but the casualties were very slight. When a distinctive bugle ent warned that Snpaneso planes were sighted, every tone took cover in huts, shelters and bbushes scattered over a wide area and, therefore, could not be econ planes, whose bombing snd machinegunning were ineffectual, Story of atiners 200, Chinese. miners from' a Shanst Miss Smedley related the story of ds" she said, "the miners broke open "hon Japanese troops, approach-{he local arsenal, armed themselves {ook their entire families, "Wwemen and children, and proceeded 0 fight their way' to safety through the countryside.
"The ath Route Army wes heavily engaged with the crack Japanese 201% Division in a valley. T'was an oye= witness when fung' broke out from the' opposite side ut the valley, Later, when" the" Japanese forces. were heavily "defeated, losing 1,900. dead and 09 prisoners, a mysterious force from the other. side of the valley proved to be these miners with their families, which were led by an old Indy of 1 years, whom they affec-thoriately styled the "Mother of the Partisans!" She was very proud that her two. sons were fighting In. the ranks, one. with regulars, the other withthe band.
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