Word: rangoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week C. N. A. C. inaugurated a new service between Chungking, capital of China, and Rangoon, capital of Burma. The famed Burma Road is the most important ground line of communications between free China and the outside world, and for those who must see that China gets the essential materials of war, the parallel air route is indispensable...
Last week, after the sinking of the 5,051-ton British freighter Clement in the South Atlantic, merchant mariners under the Union Jack had a fearful old familiar phrase on their tongues. Red-faced first mates on the British India boats chunkin' to Rangoon, the paler men who dodge growlers on the foggy way to Greenland, big men on the cold Cape haul-all were nervous on the watch and reminiscent at mess because of a capricious, romantic, dangerous ghost that was out kissing British ships again: the German raider...
Premier under the new Constitution has been Dr. Ba Maw, artful, unscrupulous, Anglophile barrister of Rangoon. Chief rival to Dr. Ba Maw has been U Saw, artful, unscrupulous, demagogic leader of the Myochit (Patriotic) Party, who finds anti-British slogans the most effective way of rallying opposition to Premier Ba Maw. Late last December U Saw organized a patriotic demonstration in Rangoon, surrounded the Government Secretariat with two thousand students and 600 well-fed, yellow-robed Phongyis (Buddhist priests). Armed with umbrellas, lunch baskets, water bottles and red flags and shouting "Burma for the Burmans" and "Patriotic Fury...
...riots in Burma are of two kinds, arising from the fact that Burmans hate Indians as much as Englishmen. Fortnight ago native Buddhists put on a real riot against Hindu immigrants, and you could hear police sticks chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay. Twenty-four persons were killed. Last summer there were more serious Burman-Indian riots which killed 200 and wounded nearly 1,000. They were caused by: 1) the rifling by Hindus of a sacred pagoda which contained one of Buddha's teeth; 2) the distribution by Hindus of a pamphlet containing passages insulting to Buddha. Burma...
...wheel and a piece of undercarriage were found on the shore of tropical Aye Island, off the Burma coast. Photographs of the wheel were sent to Lockheed Aircraft Corp., makers of the plane. Last week Lockheed definitely identified the ship it came from as the Lady Southern Cross. Rangoon botanists, after examining weeds clinging to the wreckage, guessed that Sir Charles and his Lady Southern Cross lie in 15 fathoms of sea water close...