WOMAN LEADS SOLDIERS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19887, 15 March 1939, Page 13

WOMAN LEADS SOLDIERS

AGED CHINESE FIGURE Leader of a guerrilla band of. 300 Chinese soldiers, Mrs. Chao She, 75 years, old, has become a famous figure in the Sino-Japanese war. The dauntless old Chinese woman clad in military uniform, is not only fighting the Japanese but making them feed her soldiers, said F. Y. Young Chinese newspaperman. “I was at the Eastern front just before I left China,” he said recently in Vancouver. “I noticed the soldiers were eating Japanese fish and when I asked them why they referred me to their leader. “I went to the leader’s tent expecting to find a great husky man as guerrilla commander. To my amazement there was an old lady of 75 in military uniform. “It was the famous Mrs. Chao. She told me that the day before her soldiers had captured 15 big boxes of food and 60 boxes of ammunition. “Then she smiled and asked where I would be at Christmas. She asked me to leave my address and she hoped she would be able to send me a fine Christmas present. She would get it, she hoped, from the Japanese.”