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Ever since it became a traveler's legend, the Burma Road has been a headache to the men who run it. Torrential rains, merciless bombing, malaria, red tape, British blockade, and technical ignorance have cursed the life of its officials. All these things Newsman Stowe airily brushed aside to come down like a Yunnanese landslide on one single fault: graft. Corruption, he implied, has caused: 1) swollen profits of greedy trucking firms; 2) indiscriminate dumping of war materials just within China's borders; 3) the failure of needed medical goods to get beyond Rangoon...
When grasping Japan seized China's island of Formosa (the Beautiful) in 1895 and renamed it Taiwan (Terraced Bay), the Chinese accepted their loss with Oriental calm. In the years that followed they watched their neighbor struggle with Formosan problems of malaria, head-hunting savages, typhoons and earthquakes...
...which soon will be pounded by the terrible surf of the northeasterly monsoon. Behind the beaches, beyond a fringe of graceful, feathery casuarina trees, lie the swamps-great stinking pestholes which house most of nature's nightmares: crocodiles, pythons, cobras, and the nasty little Anopheles, the mosquito of malaria. Behind the swamps lie jungles which are almost airtight, home of adders, tigers and other Japanophobes...
...attack on Yünnan would immediately run into a formidable barrier of mountains and malaria. It would run into a "Chinese" Air Force of about 200 American P-40 fighters manned by pilots on leave from the U.S. Army Air Forces and about to start service under the Chinese flag. And an attack on Yünnan would run into the determined South China Forces which lack mechanization but greatly outnumber the Japanese...
Trinidad's Anopheles bellator breeds in the water that collects on the air plants growing on the tall immortelle trees which are used to shade the cocoa trees. The way to control malaria in Trinidad, said Dr. Rozeboom, is to cut down the immortelles...