The Archive · 1938

Into Burma

From Yunnanfu the missionaries will travel by bus to Tali Lake, the terminus of the new motor road to Burma, whence they wil! proceed to Myitkina, in Burma.

Then they intend to take the Burma railway for a short distance to the south before travelling by ro across Burma, via Manipur State, Silchar, in Assam. From Silchar they will catch another train to take them across India, visiting route Darjeeling, Benares, Agra, Delhi Jumma, and also possibly Srindgar in Ka:

hair, and Hinally, in Ka chi Leaving Ini the couple will journey up the Persian Gulf by steamer to Basra and then catch a train for Baghdad, where they will take a Naim desert omnibus across the Syrian Desert to Damascus.

From here they will proceed Jerusalem, and next sail from Palestine for Constantinople to join the famous Oriental Express, which will bring them to their journey's end across Germany.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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