Paris, Jan. 13.
The Grand Cross of the Order of Pius XI was presented to the Premier, M. Camille Chautemps, yesterday by the Papal Nuncio, Mgr. Valen. The Foreign Minister, M. Yvon Delbos, "was also awarded a Papal order—
Miss Swedley first attracted attention in 1920 for her championship of Indian self-government in an American campaign. From 1920 to 1928 she lived in Germany end then in 1929 visited China as correspondent for the "Frankfurter Zeitung." She has remained in China as an associate of Madame Sun Yat-sen and others working for political rights.
"Having experienced Japanese methods with helpless populations," she said, "villagers always evacuate en masse on the approach of Japanese troops, taking with them their foodstuffs and leaving behind empty houses and poisoned wells. Then, when the Japanese troops have occupied a village, they are harassed day and night with surprise attacks.
"young men have all joined guerilla bands, or else are acting as carriers or look-outs for regular units of the 8th Route Army, while women and children are sent to safety out of reach of the Japanese. The entire people are becoming an army. They are training themselves in guerilla fighting and are thus rendering Japan's tenure in North China most insecure,
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