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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1961
China's Front-Line Troops Are Both Tough And Skillful
By UNITED PRESS
What kind of a fighting man is this Chinese Communist soldier who is pushing the United Nations army southward?
Obviously, very tough. And also very skillful. The Chinese Communist troops are better fighters than the North Korean Reds because many of them have been tested in the fires of battle of the Chinese civil war.
When pay day rolls around the Chinese Communist soldier usually gets a slip of paper instead of money. It is scrip and he can redeem it for staple grains if and when he ever gets back home from the frozen battle fields of Korea. He gets around a $1.92 a week worth of scrip.
Meanwhile he carries his food with him. There aren't any field kitchens rolling up to the Communist front lines. The only Krations or processed food a Chinese soldier gets is that which he captures from the Americans. He carries a sack of raw grain, sometimes millet. Occasionally he carries rice, and he cooks it whenever and wherever he can. One meal a day is enough to keep him going for a long time.
He doesn't wear a steel helmet unless he has picked one up on the battle field. He wears a fur or wool cap and sometimes has nothing more than a cloth wrapped around his head. He has on baggy, quilted trousers stuffed into leggings and a quilted jacket. His shoes may be made out of either fur, hide or canvas.
The Chinese Red soldier is likely to be carrying almost any kind of weapon. His favorite seems to be the American M-1 rifle, which he can acquire only by capture or salvage. But most of the Chinese troops use Russian-made weapons which are copies of American guns. There also are some American-made submachine guns of a type no longer used by United States troops and apparently they were captured from the Chinese Nationalists. Otherwise the Chinese soldier is likely to have a Russian burp gun, or a Czech-type machine gun.
A Chinese attack usually opens with a big guerrilla operation at night. They make infiltrations in darkness against command posts and communication centers. Then there follows a "human sea" frontal attack with wave after wave of the Chinese trying to overwhelm the United Nations front lines. Casualties seem to mean little or nothing to the Chinese commanders, for they have vast reserves of man power and they use them to the limit.
The general practice is for a Chinese division to go into action and fight until its ammunition is exhausted. Then it is pulled out of the line to re-group and a fresh division goes in.
The Chinese Communists are said to have recently adopted an 8 billion dollar war budget. At their current military pay scale they can keep fighting for a long time on that.
2 States Offer Graduates Jobs
Two Kansas firms and the highway division of the bureau of public works of C California have written to the School of Engineering and Architecture, announcing openings for February graduates.
The National Gypsum company of Medicine Lodge has two openings for mechanical engineers as night foremen in charge of shift production and one opening for a chemical engineering graduate. The firm has already hired one February graduate in this field.
The Layne-Western company of Wichita has an opening for a mechanical or civil engineer for sales engineering work, involving ground water supplies for municipalities and industries in Kansas. The starting salary for this position is $250 a month.
G. T. McCoy, state highway engineer of California, says that because of the expanding highway and freeway program of that state it has become necessary to hire many junior civil engineers for positions that have many opportunities for advancement. February graduates in the field of civil engineering will be eligible for these positions.
Employment for these positions is under civil service and appointments must be made from a list of names established by a competitive examination. The beginning salary for these positions is $310 a month. The next examination for these positions is scheduled for Saturday, March 3.
February graduates who are interested in taking this test are urged to write to the California division of highways, department of public works, Sacramento, Calif. Additional information about these tests and positions may be obtained from Prof. G. W. Bradshaw, chairman of the department of civil engineering, 209 Marvin hall.
Jay Janes Must Buy Tickets
Jay Janes cannot have a block of tickets for the K-State basketball game and are urged to purchase their own, president Marjorie Crane, said today.
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Students planning to take Western Civilization examination 1:30 to 5 p.m. Saturday, January 6, register at Western Civilization office today. Place of examination will be assigned at time of registration. Examination admittance card received at Western Civilization office must be presented at time of examination.
Lutheran Student Association, 6 p.m. Sunday, Trinity Lutheran church. Cost supper and choice of dual series. Eunice Burke, "Preface to Bible Study" and Pastor Dick, "When You Marry."
Episcopal university students:
Holy Communion, 7 a.m. Saturday.
Breakfast at 7:30 and transportation to class for those with 8 a.m. classes.
Episcopal Students club, 5 p.m. Sunday, Feast of Lights service. Supper at 6. Reports on National and Provincial Canterbury conferences.
All-School Table Tennis singles tournament, 7:30 p.m. January 9 through 11. Recreation Room, Memorial Union. Entries must be in S.U.A. office by 5 p.m., Monday, Jan. 8. Large traveling trophy awarded to winner.
Hui O Hawaiiana. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Memorial Union. Bring ukes. Everyone invited.
A.W.S. Precinct I, 4 p.m. Monday,
A.W.S. lounge, 222 Strong. Important.
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Each student of the University is eligible for the $100, $75, and $50 prizes offered in the Hattie Elizabeth Lewis contest of Essays on Applied Christianity.
Essay Contest Open To All Students
Freedom of choice in the matter of subject is encouraged, but all essays should be on the main theme of the teachings of Jesus as related to some problem of the present day.
Not later than May 1, each contestant should hand in three copies of his essay at the chancellor's office. The essay should be signed with his assumed name. Accompanying the copies should be a sealed envelope with the exact title of the essay and the writer's assumed name written on it, and with
the contestant's real name inside.
The essays, not less than 3,000 and not more than 10,000 words in length, must be typewritten and have a bibliography.
Awards will be made by the committee and announced at commencement. Members of the committee are; Mattie E. Crumrine, assistant professor of Romance languages; Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism; and James E. Seaver, assistant professor of history.
The memorial was established at the University of Kansas in 1911, in memory of Hattie Elizabeth Lewis, a former student of the University. It was founded by Prof. George Edward Patrick, of Washington, D.C., and is maintained out of funds put in the hands of the chancellor of the University a few months before Professor Patrick's death in 1916.
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