No.28
                                   Rangoon, Jan. 12, 19&2.
                                   Received January 16, 1942.
 
 
The United Kingdom is buying up rice in order to save the rice
 
owners from ruin, because the collapse of trade has destroyed the 
 
market. After the first two raids on Rangoon, 300,000 Burmese 
 
and Indians decamped and some 50,000 went as far as Prome on foot 
 
hoping to escspe to India, but were turned back.
 
                                    Schnare