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PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY AND FOR U.S. MARINES IN CHINA |
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School Days... Louis Massey, as he was known for 12½ years when he fought most of the pro ring's great feather-, light-, and welter- weights, shows students of the Special Services here how to keep a good guard. Private First Class Louis J. Masucci, as his Marine Corps record book shows him, has lent his "know how" to the talents of an itinerant school staff in its sports instruction here. Wearing the gloves are Privates Robert L. Klute of Three Oaks, Michigan, and Roland E. Mossberg of Route 2, Amherst, Massachusetts. |
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Congratulatory Telegrams Cite USMC Birthday Major General Keller E. Rockey, Commanding General of the Marine Corps Forces in North China, received the following telegrams on the 170th anniversary of the Marine Corps. "Congratulations on One Hundred Seventieth Anniversary of American Marines" ...General Sun Lien-chung, Commander-in-Chief of the 11th War Area ...Brigadier General Hu Chung-ching, Chief of the Foreign Affairs Department, 11th War Area. "Greetings and Heartiest Wishes on Marine Birthday" ...O. Joerg, Consul for Switzerland. |
Coming Up The Hai Ho . . .
By James
(By Sgt. Roland G. James USMCR.)
No. 1 in a Series of two drawings of Marines arriving in North China. The second in the series will be published next week. |
Excerpts: ‘Things Chinese..’ (The following are excerpts from the Tientsin Evening Journal column by Sergeant William Martin Camp, USMC, author of "Retreat, Hell!" and "Skip to My Lou," two recent novels.) Yanks take brides wherever they go, and it is no wonder that the big problem confronting the Army and Navy transport services is the delivery of wives of American servicemen who have served on foreign shores, taken unto themselves wives and begun producing families. There have been various estimates on the number of wives of Americans waiting in the British Empire to go "home" to Daddy. Some say there must be half a million in London and the rest of the British Isles. * * * Boys, here's what we're up against: In the first place, no old line Chinese girl will go out with a foreign man in public unescorted without running the risk of being shunned by her family and friends. However, if you do manage to talk your way into the good graces of a Chinese family, we doubt whether you could meet the other requirements of a proper Chinese marriage. Chinese girls are usually betrothed in childhood, and sometimes even before they are born. It may happen that two families are particularly friendly, and the parents of expected children often agree that if one has a boy and the other a girl, they will be pledged in marriage from the moment of birth. * * * Now, how about this: A man in China marries - not so much for his own benefit but to perpetuate the family name, to provide descendants to continue this business of ancestral worship, and to give his mother a daughter to wait on her. And you can't say to the little lady, "You name the day, baby!" for that is the right of the groom's father. Now if I were to ask my old man - Well, that's another story. * * * |
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