Rangoon, July 4
Mechanical fighting vehicles, modern automatic weapons, motorized transport are among "large, quantities of modern war materials" which arrived {0 augment supplies reach-
"for some time." ing Burma from the United Kcngdom Braving the fury of the monsoon the Governor of Burma has. in, ten days completed a thousand-mite tour of Tenasserim, Burma's easternmost division, where amidst rubber plantations "and tin and wolfram fumes have sprung up unt of ite country's rapidly #&panding forces, Hitherto no governor has attempted to reach these areas by road, particularly during a monsoon, Frequently the Governor had to wade nee-deep across ravines.
The tour emphasized the toughness of the natural barriers of the Tenasserim hills. the remarkable increase in Burma's armed strength, and the growth of acrodromes.
The soldier and farmer both came under the Governor's attention, because og former Minister of <Agrlallure he is a well known figure the agricultural world—Reuter.
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