HAZARDOUS JOURNEY
(Received July 17, 10.50 p.m.) KUNMING, July .10. Exhausted ami near starvation, two elderly American Presbyterian missionaries, Mr. and Mrs. Hanna, and 90 British commandos have arrived after an epic 62-ilay march of -130 miles through malaria and bandit-infested mountain country. The hazardous journey began in Kentung 12 hours before the Japanese occupation. The party travelled across an ancient salt trail, crossing 15 .separate mountain ranges. For many days they were without food. Half the party was stricken with malaria and the other half with dysentery.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 249, 18 July 1942, Page 7
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