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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 95, 18 October 1940, Page 8

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THE BUBMA'ROAD

LORRIES REACH KUNMING

AMERICAN COMMENT

LONDON, October 18.

The reopening of the Burma Road was immediately followed by the dispatch of a fleet of 200 lorries carrying war supplies into China, and the arrival of thre first contingent at Kunming has already been reported in Rangoon. The Japanese threat to bomb the Chinese section of the road has not yet come to anything.

The United States Press gives prominence to the reopening of the road. The '"Washington Post" comments that it is a. significant indication of Britain's renewed determination to have done with appej&sement and to stand firmly with tho United States against further Japanese encroachment on the rights ©f the Western Powers in the Far East. RIOB SHORTAGE IN JAPAN. The MJoscow wireless broadcast two reports today about the Far East. One qwrted an American report that there was a considerable shortage of rice in Japan, and that the Japanese were n<orev trying to lower the consumption o£ rice and had introduced rice rationijig cards in certain, industrial areas. The second report was that Mexico ■was in. favour of military collaboration with tibe United States. According to this report, the Mexican Government had ailready promised to help the United States in the case of a conflict in they Far East. A report from Mexico City broadcast today" by the United States was that Japan had placed a rush order of 40 tons of mercury with Mexico. It is stat^l that the order is to be assembled this Veek. !C Molotov, Soviet Prime Minister sad iForeign Commissar, today received Mr. Togo, the retiring Japanese Ambassador, for a farewell visit.