The Burma Road Highway to the Heart of Japan

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The Burma Road. Highway to the heart of Japan. Look here, Haruka. You can see it for yourself. That's a California newspaper, isn't it? Yes.

Now look at that advertisement. Right there. That looks alarming, Jimmy. Oh, in America they're advertising through trips from Liverpool to Hong Kong. straight across America on the new Transcontinental Railroad. Yes, Atlantic to the Pacific.

Interesting that driving that golden spike to mark the completion of the railroad. Interesting. It's alarming. You gentlemen think this new American railroad will be in competition with our roots to the audience? Direct competition. Oh, don't it is new Transcontinental Railway. It's the opening of that new canal, the Suez Canal.

I've been watching that in the papers, Denny. This year is a turning point for us, gentlemen. The first gentleman? 1869. Two new shortcuts to the audience opening up, and how many of us realize the importance of this?

Do you, Denny? No, I should say a good mannevers do. Means it the most important route for our commerce might be across the United States on that railroad. It means far more than that. What are you getting at, Sam?

Is that old idea of a road to Burma, to China? It's not an old idea, Hardicker. People have been meddling with the idea for 30 or 40 years. Yes, but the need is becoming greater every year.