The Archive · 1938

Why Me Joined

Army "only because I had to suptinued, he was promised a monthly salary' of $5. He, however, soon discovered that $4 of this amount fvas being withheld for food. "Once inthe Army," he said, "T could travelled. to Shan: xy way, Leaving, Hupeh in Ausust, Kwanglung and Hangchow. When [Shanghai fell, Ho returned to Hang-jehol and later went to the Molan-Shan area, where his unit constantly dodged pursuing Japanese units. The bitterest fighting he had _witnessed, he said, was in Dazang in JOctober and a three-day battle on the western outskirts of Shanghai in Tevecaarit offices in four of the JJapanese occupied cities, Shanghai, Soochow, Nanking and " Hangchow, have been reopened to business under JJapanese management, states a report to the "Life Daily News."

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