BURMA ROAD SCANDAL
EXAMPLE OF WAR-TIME GRAFT MALADMINISTRATION ECHOES Although the Burma Road itself, which now stretches like a decaying monument through the no-man’s-land between the Chinese and Japanese armies and thence into occupied Burma, has temporarily lost all the international significance which dramatised it into the world’s most notable highway, echoes of maladministration are still disturbing Chunghing. Following guarded references to arrests in most newspapers during the past week, an appeal for the sternest punishment was made to-day by the Takungpao, which announces the imprisonment of Lin Shih-liang, former transport director. Defending itself against criticism for revealing the details of this scandal, the newspaper states that this is the sixthtime it has published examples of wartime graft.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXI, Issue 8833, 16 October 1942, Page 4
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