Word: kaladan
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Last year, the Chinese came. The villagers living in western Burma's remote Arakan state couldn't quite fathom what the Chinese told them, that below their rice fields might lie a vast reserve of oil. For three months the Chinese drilled the earth near the muddy Kaladan River in search of black gold. Then, just as suddenly, they left. In December, the Indians arrived. Through Burmese intermediaries, they took the village's paddies as their own, depriving locals of their main source of income. Compensation was promised, villagers tell me, but none has been paid...
...gift to his men: ten tons of bitter, exhilarating kola nuts from the sterculiaceous African tree. Morale soared. On kola nuts and water Katsinans can tackle anything-hunger, fatigue, forced marches, or the most vicious enemy. Roaring their traditional cry of Hau!, the kola-inspired warriors swarmed down the Kaladan Valley, won their biggest victory of the Burma...
...switched last week from defense to attack. Three divisions of Japs, by their usual method of wily infiltration, moved north through Burma's matted jungle, over Burma's ragged ridges. British troops fell back up the Mayu River. In a parallel retreat, Indian troops withdrew along the Kaladan River, hurriedly cut across the Mayu Peninsula to avoid encirclement...
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