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Changchun is held by the First Army, perhaps the best of all the Chinese Government armies. It was trained, clothed and equipped in Burma by General Stilwell. . . . But behind their gallant appearance there is little of the strength they had under American command. They have only American equipment. They have been using it ever since they fought beside our men in Burma. It is worn out. . . . Their rifles have been used so much that they will no longer shoot straight. . . . They have excellent American artillery but are so short of ammunition that they cannot fire a single practice shot. Their...
Assigned to the China-India-Burma theater, Rothenberg spent the summer snaring unclaimed feathered wanderers and retaining the bones. "There was a good feed in it occasionally," he recalls with relish...
...road to power he had made many enemies. His chief rival was dapper, wily ex-Premier U Saw. He had accused Aung San of being a British puppet, refused to sign the independence agreement in London because it might lead to dominion status instead of full independence for Burma. Last year gunmen fired three shots into U Saw's car; glass cut his face. He accused Aung San of planning the attack, and tightened the guard on his fortress-like house on a lake seven miles from Rangoon...
...Queen Victoria Jubilee Hall, thousands of weeping Burmans stood in the rain awaiting their turns to file past the embalmed bodies of U Aung San and his Buddhist fellow victims (which will lie in state a month before burial). Burma now had a martyr and a legend. The Bogyok's A.F.P.F.L. party was more popular than ever, but its leadership had been almost obliterated. British Governor Sir Hubert Elvin Rance (who gets assassination threats almost every day) announced to Burmans: "I am glad to inform you that . . . Thakin Nu [the murdered leader's right-hand man] has agreed...
...been appropriated for their section of the highway, they offered to work free if they had an engineer to show them how. Mexico City sent down Engineer Fernando Zurita. Under his direction the people tackled the job without modern machinery, using picks and shovels like Chinese coolies on the Burma Road...