GIVING THEM SOCKS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13333, 21 December 1943, Page 6

GIVING THEM SOCKS

The women of Chungking have been busy making socks and shoes for Chinese fighting men. The great need for these for China’s front-line fighters was emphasised when a “troop comforting party” returned from Western Hupeh to Chungking late in June, a shoes-and-socks-for-soldiers camSo, on China’s sixth war anniversary paign was launched. All classes of the community immediately took to the needle and thread to ptake the special types of socks and shoes worn by China s soldiers, and in a few days thousands of pairs were displayed at a presentation meeting. One old lady of 70 living in a slum district, mother of a soldier, ransacked her dingy house and found two sheets of grey cloth which she made use of. At a monster rally a little later, it was announced that a million Chinese dollars had been raised for the shoes and socks fund. So the women of Chungking, by providing socks for their fighting men, are helping them to ‘ giv e the Japanese socks.”