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Show Cows and Coolies Form Pack Trains for Chinese WITH THE CHINESE FORCES ON THE SALWEEN FRONT. This is an army whose 20th century demands de-mands are being filled by 18th century cen-tury transportation methods. Pack trains of coolies, mules, horses even cows carry rifle and mortar ammunition, rice and salt to troops on this 130-mile front over some of the most rugged terrain in China. It takes 30,000 large sacks of rice, for instance, to feed Chinese soldiers sol-diers in this area each month. For trail purposes, these large sacks ara broken down into six smaller bags. Each coolie carries two. More than 90,000 civilian coolies have volunteered volun-teered their services. They are rotated ro-tated as much as possible and spend their spare time cultivating Yunan's rice crop.. |