Lin Maike's visit to the border region.

Lin Maike was born in England, a generation of scholarly family. From 65438 to 0937, he was hired by yenching university in Beiping as the economic tutor of Yanda University, and led the establishment of the Oxford-style tutorial system. 1937 17 In February, Lin Maike bypassed the United States and took a boat from Vancouver to China. He also came to China with the famous internationalist soldier Bethune.

Yenching university was the only free university in the occupied area at that time. Si Tuleideng, president of Yanda University, tactfully negotiated with the Japanese. President Si Tuleideng stood firm on major issues, preferring to close the door rather than compromise on matters of principle, which deeply influenced Lin Yifu.

1938 at the beginning, Halldor, correspondent of the Associated Press in Beiping? Hansen reported that an interesting organization is developing in central Hebei. Lin Maike is very curious. After consulting several young teachers in yenching university, I decided to use the Easter holiday to learn more about this organization.

/kloc-in the summer of 0/938, Lin Maike and his colleagues set out from Jizhong and arrived at General Lv Zhengcao's headquarters in Renqiu. They were warmly welcomed and received by the soldiers and civilians in the base area. Then, they were escorted across the Pinghan Railway and entered the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region of General Nie and the border government led by Chairman Song Shaowen. In the base area, Lin Maike saw: the masses held an anti-Japanese rally, the recruits were practicing, the workers in the arsenal were working nervously, anti-Japanese slogans were written on the blackboard of rural primary schools, men and women participated in the discussion of state affairs on an equal footing, and a novel cultural activity of the people in the base area-performing anti-Japanese dramas on the open-air stage. They were also lucky enough to be allowed to take part in guerrilla attacks on the Pinghan Railway.

At the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Brick Wall Village, Wuxiang County, Lin Maike met with Commander-in-Chief Zhu De and overhauled the communication equipment of the radio station for the communication department of the headquarters.