Story of the Burma Road
N Canton fell, Kunming, the new capital of Yunnan, near the border of Burma, became the international gateway of China, and statesmen and journalists began to emphasise the importance to the British Empire of this new highway, both from
strategic and trade points of view. The Burma Road isn’t a new road-it is really one of the oldest in the world. It. was a mule caravan route in the days of Marco Polo, and centuries before that merchants brought caravans, loaded with fragrant spices from the Spice Islands, ivory and silver, and rubies and sapphires from Mogok along this way. But those were the Golden
Days, now hardly more than a legend. For centuries the volume of trade has been small, chiefly because hostile tribes have inhabited the border country on both sides and also because the peasants of Western Yunnan are too poor to buy merchandise of any kind. It needed a war to bring home the absolute necessity for such a road, and both Britain and China showed remarkable energy in making it.-
(Mrs.
Vivienne
Newson
"Adventures on the China«
Burma Road,’ 2YA October 22),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 73, 15 November 1940, Page 5
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