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...demonstration took place in Rangoon. Part of the international volunteer air force had been assigned by the Chinese to hold an umbrella over the ocean inlet of the Burma Road. Another group (including a onetime TIME Inc. office boy, John Newkirk) protected Kunming, the inland terminus. On Dec. 23, the Japanese came over Rangoon for the first time, lost six bombers to the Flying Tigers who lost four planes, two pilots...
...Japanese heavily bombed Kunming, Chinese terminus of the Burma Road, to prevent, they said, a Chinese drive into Indo-China or later through Burma into Thailand...
Last week ten Japanese bombers came winging their carefree way up into Yunnan, heading directly for Kunming, the terminus of the Burma Road. Thirty miles south of Kunming, the Flying Tigers swooped, let the Japanese have it. Of the ten bombers, said Chungking reports, four plummeted to earth in flames. The rest turned tail and fled. Tiger casualties : none...
Fire, flood and boom all swept Alaska last week. The fire swept through Seward, southern terminus of the Alaska Railroad. The blaze started in the Second Chance Barber Shop, raged for eight hours, destroyed half the town (pop. 949). Army officers set up emergency kitchens, found shelter for the homeless. In the rest of Alaska, men were fighting not fire but water...
Thus Allied promises of last summer to free both Syria and Lebanon were fulfilled. The Biblical land of silk, olives and tall cedars (long since decimated for lumber), a western terminus of the oil pipeline from Iraq, gained complete independence for the first time since its political separation from Syria in 1864. Lebanon's newly elected President Alfred Nacache, formerly Prime Minister under the French Mandate, set about choosing a Cabinet representing both Christians and Moslems...