To the Editor of the fouth-CHINA DaiLy News"
Sim—Together with wife and two children, we have recently completed a" transfer from the. station at Yungning, Szechuan, located about 40 miles from the northeastern border of Yunnan, to this place which is situated about an equal distance from Burma on the southwestern border of Yunnan.
The work at the former station was among the Ch'uan Miao tribesmen on the border of Szechuan and Yunnan, while the work here among the Flowery Lieu on the border of Yunnan and Upper Bur-
We made the journey vid Shanghai, Singapore and Rangoon, and all along the route we were inter-togated by friends European and native as to the reasons for taking this unusual roundabout route, instead of coming directly overland. Inasmuch as the direct overland route is only between five and siz hundred mites as the crow flies, and "around the continent" route we took is approximately siz thousand es, it is little wonder that our friends who hadn't given the matter careful thought, wondered if we were exactly in our right minds in taking such a cireuituous route! Thinking that the answer to the questions of our friends might be you today, giving in order the reasons for taking the singapore route in going from the northeast to the southwest. borders of Yunnan.
1, Time saved in travel. This can best be shown by tables show ing the sections of the two routes.
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