Word: pegues
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...Khin San, 18, was beautiful and beloved by the prosperous young trader Aung Thein of Pegu. Ma Khin Than, 21, her sister, was beautiful but blind. If San were married, mused her widowed father U Po Sein, what then would become of Than? In Buddhist Burma, where polygamy is legal (although wives are usually taken one at a time), these things are more readily solved than elsewhere. Sein had a talk with Thein; Than had a talk with San. Last week, in a bridal ceremony during which, clad in a pink sarong, he sat on a carpet with his betrothed...
...conquers Burma must win the rivers and their valleys. With them go Burma's chief port, Rangoon; the oil of Yanangyaung, on the Irrawaddy ; the ruby and silver mines; 85% of all the precious tungsten in the British Empire; Burma's rubber plantations; the inland cities-Pegu, Prome, Mandalay-where Burmese kings once ruled their separate realms, and the British were never quite at home...
...forces did not fail for lack of effort. Ninety miles east of Rangoon they established a jumping-off spot at the smoking, Kipling-sung city of Moulmein, fanned northward along Burma's longest and swiftest river, the Salween, for a frontal assault against the curving coastal Martaban-Pegu railroad that leads into the Burma Road, feed line for seaborne supplies from the U.S. But there the advance slowed, then virtually halted...