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...most deadly, contorted, breath-taking and important highway, Arnstein told newshawks at Chungking: "It's a good road, and its capacity, with efficient operation, is practically unlimited. It is possible that in the future Burma Road traffic will be limited only by the capacity of the port of Rangoon." To Generalissimo Chiang these were heartening words. Cut off by the Japanese from her seacoast and from rail communications in Indo-China, Free China today finds herself as wholly dependent for materiel upon the Burma Road as is Britain upon the North Atlantic. And even had the burly Chinese truckers...
Antoni Brooke promptly went to Rangoon, married a pretty young commoner, Kathleen Hudden. Back in Sarawak, Sir Charles showed his displeasure by removing Antoni as Tuan Muda. Said he tersely: "It appears to us that our nephew is not yet fitted for the exercise of the responsibilities of this high office." Then Sir Charles retired into solitude to think things over...
...problem of distances can be judged by the fact that if a map of the U. S. were superimposed on the map overleaf it would just about cover the area shown. Roughly Rangoon would correspond to Seattle, Guam to Boston, Sumatra to Southern California, and Florida to New Guinea. The distance from the Japanese naval base on Hainan to the heart of Borneo approximates the air distance from Fargo, N. Dak. to New Orleans, and the distance from Singapore to Manila that from Salt Lake City to Detroit...
Last autumn Crown Prince Anthony unexpectedly married a certain Kathleen Hudden at Rangoon, Burma. The petulant Raja was not long in letting it be known that he considered Miss Hudden a nobody. It was too much like the marriage of his two daughters. It indicated that the Crown Prince lacked the tough, buccaneering spirit of the Brookes' fighting ancestors...
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...