Chungking, Oct. 28.
The harrowing experiences of Chi-Inese truck-drivers along the highway between Kwangsi and French Indo-China were described today by an American traveller, who arrived here from French Indo-China, via Kwangsi, Atcording to the traveller, Chinese "cob drivers are in truck-dus in constant danger lof being bombed end machine-gunned by Japanese aircraft, which maintain viligant patrol over the road.
It is stated that a Jepanese aircraft-carrier is stationed off the Kwangsi coast, from which Japanese planes, in relays of three, constantly fly over the highway.
bomb and machine-gun trucks, often flying low to straf the road, the traveller said. The Chi-.|nese, therefore, are rushing trucks through during the night.
It is a most unusual sight, he says, td watch several hundred trucks making a dash across the border between' sunset and' daybreak.
Owing to the risks involved, truck drivers are paid $500 for bringing One truck: from Chengnankwan, on the Kwangsi border, to Chungking, although the trip takes only ten days,—Reuter.
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