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...moved north toward the oilfields and the mountain passes at the junction of the India-Burma-China border, he took with him a rabble of Burmese traitors, looters from the slums of Rangoon, red-brown Karen tribesmen who have brandished their sharp heavy dahs at the British, off & on, for more than a half-century. Between thrusts, the Jap rested in the zeyats which Burmese Buddhists build for the ease of travelers and of their own souls in the next world...
From innermost China the oil came, in bamboo-&-paper buckets, wooden tubs, in second-hand steel oil drums. After the eastern ports were lost, the oil moved down the Burma Road, under constant bombardment. The last consignments shoved off from Rangoon under a shower of bombs, shortly before the advancing Japanese captured the city in March- leaving the U.S. hereafter to fend for tung itself...
...North of Rangoon the advance was two-pronged. Moving along the rail line to Mandalay and the Burma Road's stump, one army approached the black ruins of Toungoo. Another went forward along a rail spur and highway toward Prome (home of one of Kipling's famed Ladies), an unhealthy town of 30,000 in a bowl of pagoda-topped hills. Beyond Prome were the oil fields of Yenahgyaung. The British were tired. The somber phrase, "delaying actions," popped up in dispatches day after day. One day there was action near Nyaunglebin, south of Toungoo; next...
...from Rangoon, which he already holds, from western Burma, toward which he is driving-threatens the two great jute ports. Calcutta and Chittagong. Chittagong, on the eastern rim of India's coast, has already been partly evacuated. Even without that immediate threat, the shipping shortage itself has cut into jute supplies. Ships from India must carry even more vital products, such as manganese (three-fifths of the world's production is in India and the U.S.S.R., and Russia is now even more remote than India) and mica (essential for electric insulation, 80% of it comes from India). Every...
...Rangoon and Southern Burma were lost. But the troops who lost the south had learned, the hard way, how to fight Japs. They might still be too few, but no longer would General Sir Archibald Wavell have to say of them that they were ill-trained for Burman war (see p. 18). Last week the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald's correspondent, W. S. Mundy, cabled to N.A.N.A. an account of the retreat of 1,000 British troops from Rangoon...