CHINESE JOAN OF ARC
A girl who was formerly a student at the Shanghai Liankiang College has assumed the role of a Joan of Arc in Manchukuo, and is leading Chinese volunteers in their guerilla warfare against the Japanese, states an overseas writer.
Miss Yao Juni-fang, aged 24, is reported to have received her military training with the Cantonese Women's Battalion, organised in 1926 when Soviet military advisers were co-operating with tho Kuomintang Nationalists. When that battalion was disbanded by General Chiang Kai-shek, Miss Yao entered Liankiang College, where sho studied until last winter.
After tlio Japanese invasion of Shanghai, Miss Yao (now called major-general) again put on her soldier's uniform, cut off her hair, organised a company of volunteers, and journeyed northward. The girl is credited with leading Chinese troops in their .recent, assaults on Japanese garrisons along the ShanhaikuanMukden Railway. Her military skill is the admiration of her followers, whoso morale, when under her leadership, is unassailable.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21345, 21 November 1932, Page 3
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