Milford News | 1942-05-07 | Page 3 | Before Japs Cut Burma Road at Lashio

Before Japs Cut Burma Road at Lashio . r : .f.itlJWJt ill Two years ago when Lashio became the buzzing hive of industry as the jumping off place for the fleet of trucks that fed China's war machine ma-chine over the Burma road, this rail line was laid from Mandalay to Lashio Supplies were run over the line by train, and then transferred to trucks for the run into China. The Japs flanked the British-Chinese armies battling about Mandalay, and the Burma road has been cut at that vital junction. Lashio was taken by the Japs in one of the swiftest drives in their whole startling campaign.