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Harvard's first League meet is with Pennsylvania on February 11. The Quakers ought to lose handily. Two non-league meets are scheduled before the 11th, one with Colgate on February 4 and the annual contest against the Boston "Y" on the 8th. No trouble is expected from either of those squads...
From Arica, Chile, this week came a newspaperman's snapshot of the recent 8th Pan-American Conference at Lima, Peru, which did not coincide with the Conference's official picture...
...best aide on whom rests much of the responsibility for the success of this campaign of attrition is China's No. 1 Guerrilla Fighter, modest, crinkly-eyed Chu Teh, Commander of the 8th Route (former Communist) Army. Once hunted by the Generalissimo, with a price of $100,000 on his bullet-shaped head, while Chiang Kai-shek carried on his ten years of futile war against the Communists, Chu Teh now has under him a force of about 150,000 fervent Communist soldiers, another 300,000 embattled farmers, operating behind the Japanese front lines in Shansi and Shantung provinces...
Their military headquarters, located in dozens of central villages, keep in touch with each other by telephone and wireless equipment, much of it filched from the Japanese. At their general headquarters, where a "general staff" of young officers, lent by the 8th Route (former Communist) Army, veteran Manchurian fighters and college students plan widespread attacks, the Associated Pressman discovered their well-thumbed textbook on guerrilla warfare: a translation of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by the late famed Lieut.-Colonel T. E. Lawrence of Arabia...
Favorite guerrilla tale is that of 24 Chinese who, caught in Pingchüan when the Japanese entered the city, donned the blood-stained uniforms of dead Japanese, walked out of the city unmolested. This trick sometimes boomerangs. Recently 8th Route Army General Lin Piao, regarded as the ablest Chinese strategist now in the field, returned from a raid with 600 of his men who were dressed as Japanese, mounted on Japanese horses. Their own guerrillas ambushed them, wounded a number, including General Lin, before their identity was established...