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...some 2,000 stayed on. Sheltered by the natives, many of whom were openly hostile to the government in Rangoon, the troops married local women, made a living by processing opium in homemade stills set up in the bush. Occasionally they slipped across the Red Chinese frontier to pillage border villages. The bandits' activities were a troublesome irritant to the Burmese government, which feared that the rebels' raids might provoke Red China into moving into Burma against them in force. Said one Burmese army officer: "We simply have to get rid of those guys...
...dismayed by ramshackle hotels, the stupefying odors of human sweat and excrement, the maddening delays and disappointments caused by the faulty Asian time sense. The special quality of the East must be searched for, and tourists who lack energy spend their hours sitting in dank hotel lobbies in Rangoon or Nara or Kuala Lumpur wondering why their travel agents sent them there...
...wonderful drives from the seedy capital of Djakarta through jungle-clad hills to cool Bandung and Bogor. Bali has two good hotels and is always lively with festivals, cockfights, legong dances and gala cremations. Burma is not much like Kipling's description of it, but Mandalay, Pagan and Rangoon have thousands of superb Buddhist monasteries and gold-domed temples alive with tinkling silver bells. With newer and better hotels, steadily improving plane service and a gradual understanding of visitors' needs, tourist traffic in the Far East is up 20% over 1959, should total 890,000 for this year...
...Rangoon, Burma...
...Rangoon last week Burmese customs men proudly reported their "biggest haul since 1952": the discovery of $31,000 in smuggled gold aboard the Dolpheverett, a Liberian-registered freighter operated by California's Everett-Orient Line. In Calcutta the Dolpheverett's sister ship Rutheverett is being confiscated outright by the Indian government. After a week-long search during which they all but dismantled the ship, Indian customs officers uncovered aboard the Rutheverett $700,000 worth of gold stashed away in hidey-holes ranging from the ship's garbage bin to secret compartments...