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...Rangoon was a grave. The roads of southern Burma were alive with miserable Indian thousands, in flight both from the Japanese and from long-knived Burmese nationalists. To every white man they saw, the Indians lifted dark hands, dark faces, and cried "Sahib! Sahib!" They cried for water, for money, for safety from the lurking dacoits who knifed and stripped the stragglers...
China's Roads. Because the Japanese have closed China's coast line, China must breathe through roads and railways leading to unconquered seaports. The Japanese, closing on Rangoon, were closing the entry to China's arterial Burma Road. But China had an alternative. In the wild, peaked plateau where China and India meet, just above invaded Burma, some 20,000 Chinese stonecutters, some 100,000 other laborers blasted, hewed and dug away at a substitute route into India across 10,000-foot peaks, across three great rivers, across many another vast obstacle between Sichang in China...
...Allies gave up the port of Rangoon* last week. They did not give up the city. British Imperials on the city's none-too-distant approaches fought with the greatest fury of the Burmese campaign. But the port died. Its sea entrances were mined, shutting off supplies for the defenders and shipments to China over the Burma Road (see p. 15). Eve Curie, arriving as a war correspondent, recognized in partially evacuated Rangoon "the emptiness, the unforgettable silence of the big cities in danger...
...Rangoon was in dire danger. Some 40,000 Japanese in the front lines, 30,000 more in reserve pressed toward the last of three rivers which barred their advance. They had crossed the Salween. They put bicycle scouts in Burmese dress, sent them worming ahead to find weak spots. Small parties of soldiers followed the scouts, stabbed here & there, and called in stronger forces when a foothold was seized. Thus they crossed the Bilin, and moved slowly on toward Rangoon's last important river barrier, the Sittang. The same advance carried them nearer & nearer to the one railway which...
...northern Burma, a Chinese attack comforted, if it did not materially relieve, the British near Rangoon. Tiny, merry Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, Chungking's Minister of Information, discouraged descriptions of China's Burmese activity as a major offensive. Chinese armies, he said significantly, were always making little offensives and would make big ones only when they had the material wherewithal from...