Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-10-18 | Page 26 | Rangoon Held Burma Road Trouble Spot

Rangoon Held Burma Road Trouble Spot By RICHARD w WALDO AlDO and 5 GABRIEL 5 NEW YORK If Japan Intends to knock any chips off British and American shoulders the place for forIt forit forit it according to New York underwriters underwriters under under- S U writers Is Kipling's famed Ran Ran- goon The Indian port Is the biggest big big- S I gest t terminal for supplies that will S travel the disputed Burma road It Is ls being served by vessels of ot S flU fLit flags Norwegian ships that es escaped es- es t. t the nazis some assorted neutrals neutrals neutrals neu neu- some hundreds of ot British merchants plus two lines I virtually owned by the U. U S. S maritime maritime mari marl time commission If set on calling the Anglo-American Anglo hand handS Nippon m may y pull an Asiatic Paul Revere RevereS S J. J parallel a and d elect between b bombIng bombing bomb bomb- mb- mb ing the owned British land highway or choose to Intercept the vessels that supply it by sea S S J In advance of ot the decision Brit Ish marine underwriters have notified notified notified no no- colleagues In the New v York Insurance syndicates that chances of ot Japanese naval action In Burmese Burmese Burmese Bur Bur- I mese waters call caU for a stiff rise in coverage coverage rates The British forecast if correct affects the U. U S. S through two steamship lines Isthmian Isthmian mian and AmerI American an President both bothof bothof of which serve the Rangoon-Burma Rangoon S supply relay Both are also theS the S f recipients of such heavy subsidies I from the federal maritime commissIon commission com com- corn com mission that Japanese interference I with their traffic would amount to toa toa I a considered perhaps considered perhaps Invited kick Invited kick kickin in the teeth of Washington S