The new highway between Burma ang Yun-(Kunming) has been completed and trucks jate beginning to arrive in the Yunnan capital [The importance of the new highway to. China cannot be too highly estimated for it will maize good, in some measure, the loss in supply routes. suffered by "the Japanese capture of Canton and the control of the Pearl River. Tt Qhe Chinese intention also to build a railway between principal points in. Yunnan and Burma fang. survey work on the new line has made much progress. Were It not for the pressure Of political conditions which makes the Chinese Government concentrate on this new supply cute, there ig no. reason why communications in this part of China should not be: developed. There, has been trade between the {wo coun-files for centuries, and az the molar truck and the oilway are displacing the mule andthe camel, these developments are merely receiving additional impetus from another source. The present railhead for the read to Yunnan is Eashio, which is on a branch railway from Mandsioy. It was originally. proposed Ullize another "raithend. at_Afyitkyma, north Bhamo, but road building. operations between this point and Tengyueh, across the Chinese border, "were hampered "by. the charac-for of "the terrain and the proposal Wwas abandoned, From Lashio, Burma, the new highway goes to Muse on the border, and be-tasser tasse and Kunming, it is reported, that 60,000 Chinese labourers have been at work on the S00 mile stretch, outdistancing the labourers fom the Burmese side of the road and perform. Sie "prodigious feats, 'The highway is what nfentbe termed a "dry weather road" but large Fictches are being metalled to make it usable mall Kinds of weather, 'The highest altitude 12 ut, more than' 6000 fet ud the, gradients 3 duly trae of abet 100 three-ton trucks along selaively easy enabling the maintenon eeeeees cee sheeescesenenn ike rosa. On parts ofthe road, principally between Running end Taifu, a moier bus service See afted, with buses Imported. through Been, Sgnd'it is a tribute tothe speed and Rurmichness of the Chinese labourers engaged ener Chinese portion of the road that tavel-
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