These, it is stated, also indicate China's resolve to attack Japan's trade in the South Seas, where ready the anti-Japanese boycott is reported to be more effective than anywhere else.
Apart from the development of motor lorry transport on the Burma-Yunnan road, the Chinese are said io be anxious to induce the Burma Government to complete the Burma railroad from Katha, the present railhead, situated 100 miles to the west of the Burma-Yunnan boundary.
Chinese circles here stress the commercial advantage for Burma it linking up with the railways of West China, which are now starting to be developed, instead of coming to a dead-end.
This project, Chinese circles emphasize, is actually quite an old scheme, though it was brought into actuality by recent events.
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