Chungking, Aug. 4.
Recently 70 Burma overseas. Chi neve volunteered for service in the Chinese army, Chinese sources serted today.
After undergoing five months milltary training" they were accepted, these quarters said, Twenty of them joined" artillery units while the fothers entered the engineering [branches of the army.
Some of these volunicers previous ly aided China's cause before the fall of Hankow, the reports said. At that time they inspected and assisted improving the defence works along. the central Yangtze front, After the Chinese withdrawal from the city, they were sent to Henyang, Hunan, where' they supervised the fexeavation of large quantities machinery these Chinese circles said.
Ten of the volunteers were born in Burma while the others originally came from Kwangiung, Fukien, Yun~ nan and Shantung, they added.
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