The Archive · 1939

Burma Highway May Keep Open Despite Rains

Chungking, July 20.

There is better than an even chance that highway communication will be maintained over the new Yunnan-Burma road throughout the rainy season, according to Mr. Harrison Arnold, representative of the American Motor Company, who has just arrived in Chungking after a 12-day trip through rains along the new road.

The Yunnan-Burma highway administration, he asserts, is keeping a gas day-and-night vigil on the road so that, despite rains and landslides, traffic rolls on—Reuter.

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