海南唯一在世南侨机工忆抗战峥嵘

Overseas Chinese remembered after sacrificing for WWII 'lifeline'

海南唯一在世南侨机工忆抗战峥嵘

Monday is the 86th anniversary of the "9·18 incident". Zhang Xiulong, 97, lives in a remote village in Wenchang City in the island province of Hainan in southern China. He was among the 3,200 overseas Chinese who returned home in 1939 to work as drivers and vehicle repairmen to help transport supplies to the front line in the war against Japanese aggression. 

周一（9月18日）是“九一八”事变86周年纪念日。1939年，3200名南洋华侨子弟回到祖国，成为汽车司机和修理工，也就是南侨机工，他们通过抗日战争生命线——滇缅公路向抗战前线抢运了大量物资。现年97岁的张修隆是其中的一位，记者在中国南方海南省文昌市的一个偏远村庄里见到了他。

张修隆

At the age of 21, he registered to return to China from Singapore, without telling his uncle. "Reading the news about war back home every day was tormenting," he recalled. 

当时年仅21岁的张修隆瞒着舅舅，报名参加了回国服务团。“读着新加坡的报纸对国内战事的报道，每过一天心情就愈加焦虑。”他回忆道。

 After training to be a driver for a short time, Zhang was assigned to deliver gasoline on the Yunnan-Myanmar road, which he considered a "battlefield" that could claim one's life at any minute. "Gasoline delivery was more dangerous, as any spark from a bombing would have led to an explosion," he says. 

滇缅公路历史存照。

张修隆在最短的时间里接受了汽车驾驶培训，加入了滇缅公路的车队运送汽油，他说那里就像是战场，随时都可能丧命。“运输汽油，比其他军用物资更加危险，只要有弹片火星，汽油随时会爆炸。”

According to a book compiled by Chen Yiming, honorary head of the Overseas Chinese Museum in Xiamen City, Fujian Province, 1,028 Chinese who returned from abroad died on the 1,146-km road or the Yunnan-Myanmar battlefield. 

据福建厦门华侨博物院名誉院长陈毅明编撰统计，滇缅公路全长1146公里，而直接牺牲在滇缅公路和滇缅战场上的南侨机工有1028人。

Among the overseas Chinese who returned home to support the war against Japanese aggression, more than a quarter were natives of Hainan Province. Zhang is the only one still alive in Hainan. 

南侨机工中，超过四分之一祖籍在海南，张修隆是海南最后一位健在的南侨机工。

来源：海南日报

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