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ALLEGED IN BURMA CHARGES AGAINST U. SAW. ATTEMPT TO BLOCK SUPPLIES TO CHINA. NEW YORK, January 20. The ex-Premier of Burma, U. Saw, intentionally hampered transportation on the Burma Road when he was Premier, stated Mr Harold Davis, the American transportation expert who recently inspected the Burma Road in the capacity of a United States Governmental expert. He said that U. Saw was the ringleader of a group of so-called Buddhist priests, who secretly co-operated with Japan with a view to blocking the Burma Road. Their activities resulted in completely laying off a vast number of trucks, which Mr Davis found in a state of disrepair rusting on the roadside with grass growing over the wheels.
U. Saw’s Government seriously hampered the traffic by levying a 10 per cent value tax for the material passing over the road, including the LendLease goods, and the Chinese Government was often unable to pay the enormous taxes, so for months received no goods, Mr Davis said.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 January 1942, Page 3
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