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...Delhi last week reported that 500,000 Burmese refugees had arrived in India. Some traveled by sea and air, but most of them, surviving malaria and dysentery, living on food dropped by R.A.F. planes, found their way over hidden trails from Burma into Bengal and Assam...
...thing the U.S. hopes to do is give China a substitute for the Burma Road, in the form of 100 transport planes. Then supplies landed on India's west coast can be carried across India by rail and flown about 500 miles to China from airfields in Assam, India's northeasternmost province...
Although tea was first sold in England in 1657,* tea gardening remained a Chinese monopoly until 1834. That year, fearing invasion, China threatened to close her ports to foreigners and East India Company merchants promptly began tea cultivation in Assam. The wily Chinese foiled the first attempt by selling tea seeds which had been boiled. Even after cultivation got under way, it was not successful until an Englishman named Robert Fortune disguised himself as a Chinese and spied out the methods used in the famed Chinese tea gardens. Today Britain has ?120,000,000 invested in the tea industry, produces...
...years have been spent by the expedition on the Tibeto-Indian border, in Assam and in Burma, and another year or more will be required to complete these studies in Cambridge. From a 2000 mile front of ethnic groups, 6400 records have been brought back which have proved invaluable in formulating conclusions of the nature of the area...
...Gordon T. Bowles and his wife have secured anthropometric data on five thousand individuals in the Indian foothill area. The particular purpose of this survey was to analyze racial origins and migrations along the significant borderland of India and Tibet, the investigation extending from the extreme northwest to Assam and Burma...