793.94/16293: Telegram
The Consul at Rangoon (Brady) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 4—6 p.m.]
Since October 20 Burma Road has been repeatedly bombed but traffic has not yet been interrupted for more than short periods. Two main bridges slightly damaged and one convoy of 12 trucks hit. Americans at aircraft factory at Loiwing, China, numbering about 40 and including several women and children, have erected temporary living quarters across frontier in Burma. There were no American casualties during attack on October 26. Factory has been shut down and steps taken for safety of equipment pending decision as to disposition. Reports indicate that Japanese flew over Burmese [Page 908] territory. First China National Aviation Corporation plane at Rangoon since machine gunning of pilot Kent and passengers48 landed yesterday and left today on return to China and Hong Kong. As evidence that there is no present intention to abandon service, it is announced there will be an additional weekly flight to Burma.
- For American note of November 8 on the death of pilot W. C. Kent, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, Vol. i, p. 700.↩