Sometimes these captured Chinese junks are re-taken again. One dark night a small sailing vessel floated down quietly to the island, boarded and brought away a junk that had been captured that very morning. It was loaded with 25 bags of rice, which is scarce at Chuanchow as it is not a rice-growing district. The following night the performance was repeated with a junk laden with pigs, but the third attempt was unsuccessful. The Japanese lay in wait for the daring raiders and two met their deaths by machine guns, one jumped into the sea and vanished and two got back to their homes.
From Manila the Anking brought 20,000 bales of firewood for the International Relief Committee. Firewood has been badly needed and the whole was snapped up in a short time at the price of 25 cents a bundle. A bundle contains just a few catties. Custom's duty on this firewood amounted to $1,050. The sale is controlled by the K.M. Council which does its best to see that the wood is fairly well distributed among all sections of the community.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.