Miss Smedley related the tory of 200 Chinese miners from a Shansi coal-mine, When Japanese troops approached," she said, "the miners broke open the local arsenal, armed themselves, took their entire families, women and children, and proceeded to fight their way to safety through the countryside.
"The 8th Route Army was heavily engaged with the crack Japanese 20th Division ina valley. I was an eyewitness when firing broke out from the opposite side of the valley. Later, "when the Japanese forces were heavily defeated, losing 1000 dead and 500 prisoners, a mysterious force from the other side of the valley proved to be these miners with their famille', "which were led by an old lady of 61 years, whom they affection ately styled' the "Mother of the Partisans." She was very proud that her two sons were fighting in the ranks, one with regulars, the other with the band.
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