WAR VOLUNTEERS
CHINESE IN MALAYA THE EIGHTH TROOPSHIP [kkom OUR OWN CORK KSPON'DENT] SINGAPORE, August 4 The eighth "troopship" recently left Singapore with a party of 350 motor mechanics and drivers, bringing the total of Malayan Chinese volunteers for the China War to more than 2000. Known as the Third Malayan Mechanical Unit, the party included men from all over Malaya and several from Java. With the unit, a party of nine 15-vear-old Singapore schoolboys left to join the Military School in Kiangsi. Several rich men's sons were in this group. These young Malayan volunteers are sacrificing good positions and lives of comfort and safety to aid their mother country. The leader of the unit gave up his post as foreman mechanic in a leading European motor firm and a salary of £35 a month. The China Relief Fund Committee arranges and pays for passages of the volunteers, who are all medically examined and given training for several months before sailing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23435, 26 August 1939, Page 16
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161WAR VOLUNTEERS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23435, 26 August 1939, Page 16
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