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...tons a month. After the fall of France, the Burma Road was the only road into China, and imports over it were lifted to an unsatisfactory maximum of 14,000 tons in November 1941. Then it, too, was lost. Since then the air supply route "over the hump" from Assam has given China only a fraction of even the Burma Road's trickle...
...going in the South Pacific and on the Russian front and on the home front. About 100 copies are being flown all the way to General Stilwell in Chungking to keep the American flyers in China in touch with the world outside. Other copies are being flown to Assam for our flyers on the Burma front. In Liberia, in Sierra Leone, in French Equatorial Africa, in Egypt, in Iraq, in Iceland, in Greenland and in Alaska it is the same story...
...Assam and Burma own terrain which will not tolerate motor transport. Result: elephants have returned to the assistance of the Indian Army after a lapse of 40 years...
...from the city is likely to be nervous in the presence of jungle animals and jungle people, the book strives to reassure him : most animals are harmless unless bothered; except in New Guinea and Assam (India), jungle men are gentle - in fact, they like to play cat's cradle, and usually, if he treats them kindly, will not betray a man's presence to the enemy...
They climbed and climbed. Fourteen days after they had left Shwebo, they reached a mountain village of thatched huts. There they were met by a white man sent by the general commanding supply and transport in the Assam-Bengal area. They were safe, but somehow depressed. Rain fell. In one of the thatched huts the girls sat around an open fire. A voice called: "Jack, Jack, come to sleep...