In the wilds of northern Burma last. week, 148 Chinese officers and men, and two young wives, marched down a trail to a prearranged meeting point in a cleared space hacked out of the jungle.
Most of them were healthy and spring-legged, though lean; but some had malaria, tuberculosis or hookworm. In the clearing they were met and saluted by members of a four-nation supervisory team—Siam, Burma. Nationalist China, the U.S. After medical examination, the first lot of evacuees were flown to Formosa.
This marked a partial healing, which may become total, of a sore spot that has troubled southeastern Asia...
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