STUDENT — An African student browses in the library at
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WASHINGTON
A Few Hair-Raising Facts
Of A Strange Story
By JACK STINNET
(Second of Three Stories*
WASHINGTON—Perhaps some
day there will be whole books out-1
lining operations behind the Jap-i
anese lines in China of such men
as Lt. Cmdr. Meredith J. “Muddy”
Rhule, of the Office of Strategic
Services, and Lt. Maury Nee, also
an OSS school product.
Let’s hope that the authors get
to tiie participants while memo
ries are still fresh concerning one
of the strangest operations of the
war—how the American and Chi
nese who drifted through the Jap
anese lines in China and made life
for the Japanese conquering arm
ies a hell on earth.
Both Rhule and Nee are masters
of understatement. They talk of:
slipping through the nebulous!
Japanese lines as if it were a Sun-i
day afternoon stroll. They talk
about living for days on rice and
red peppers as if it were dinner at
the Waldorf.
Their only complaint in more
than a year of working behind the
lines in China’s vast rice bowl was
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the difficulty in getting drinking
water. Most of the time, their only
source was the human-fertilized
rice paddies. The thickly mudded
water had to be strained, boiled,
spiked with iodine and drunk hot.
Even then the chances of contract
ing amoebic dysentery were all
against you. Dehydration took
pounds by the score off the Occi
dentals and left them in constant
agony of thirst.
Food, they insist, was never a
problem. Even when supplies were
parachuted to them, along with
guns, munitions and explosives, it
was welcome principally because
it provided variety. The Chinese
natives, the coolies, for whom both
Rhule and Nee have high praise,
never left them wanting for some
thing to eat.
“In the field, among the farmers
and small-townsmen, I have never
seen any people around the world
that I would rather count as
friends or in whose loyalty I
would have greater faith,” says
Nee. The quiet Rhule nods vigor
ously at this.
Rhule’s reticence about the sen
sational operations of his com
mand behind the Japanese lines is
aggravating. Pressed to tell about
the assasination of Liuchow’s pup
pet governor, which he directed,
he said simply:
“Well, there really wasn’t very
much to it. Some thought he
should be bribed, but it was de
cided that that would be too dan
gerous to our agents and the only
solution was assassination. I
moved my headquarters up to just
outside Liuchow and sent three
Chinese disguised as coolies into
the city. They parked outside his
residence for some days; learned
all his habits; and then choosing
one of those times when he always
came in alone, they emptied a 22
automatic pistol, equipped with a
silencer, into him and walked out
of town.”
Just as simple as that.
(Next: Making a Japanese Talk)
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Poles Ask Medicine,
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—
WARSAW—(/P)—Doctors in Po
land are having a tough time.
They receive only 1,000 zlotys
monthly pay in government jobs,
and have little with which to
work. ’ i
The Warsaw-Bialystok medical
council requested the government
to urgently send a supply of anti- j
septics, disinfectants, and dress-1
ings.
The ministry of supply answer- j
ed by sending each doctor one
bottle of vinegar, one-half pack
age of corn-coffee and a small
packet of washing powder.
Chinese Truce
Efforts Fail
CHUNGKING, Jan. 9—(tf*)—The
efforts to achieve a truce in Chi
na’s civil strife have failed again.
Communist representatives charge
that the hitch developed because
the government demands excep
tion of Jehol and Chahar pro
vinces in the armistice terms.
“The Communists find these de
mands unacceptable and cannot
tolerate them as prerequisites to a
cease fire order,” said Gen. Chou,
Communist representative to the
truce talks. The parley adjourned
until late tomorrow.
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