as the latter have not the slightest intention of risking their skins in fighting their own countrymen, they take care to keep at a discreet distance during the passage of the guerillas.
Curiously enough, the Japanese Pee a p la seem quite con-wi state of things, of which they are fülly aware. But it will be realized that it is a policy that- cuts both ways. If it gives the amount of security for the railway, which could otherwise only be ensured by increasing enormously the Japanese forces of occupation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.