Mr. Craven Ellis, in a further question, asked whether the bridges along {the Burma-Yunnan highway would be strengthened to carry ten tons.
Lt. Col. A. J. Muirhead, Under-Secretary of "State for Tadia and Burma, replied that the Marquess of Zetland, Secretary of State for India and Burma, had been informed that all bridges on the Burma side of the Burma-Yunnan boundary were already able to carry loads up to the loaded weight of the lorries which, it was understood, the Chinese an: thorities at present' proposed ¢o use.—Reuter.
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