Yes, the Soviet route as it exists is adequate though expensive for the purpose. 5. Is there evidence that mail between the United States and China has been censored or tampered with while in transit past Japan? No, there is no such evidence so far. 6. How extensive a foreign personnel do you have in the varied agencies under your Ministry? Postal Service: 28 China National Aviation Corporation: 15 Eurasia Aviation Corporation: 13 Railways: 8 7. What developments of the last three years do you regard with most pride, as evidence of China's power to cope with the emergency? The timely completion of the Yunnan-Burma Highway may be considered as evidence of China's power to cope with the emergency and as an important development in the field of war-time communications. The Highway is 960 kilometers long from Kunming to Anting on the frontier. Construction began in October 1937. Eleven months later, the road was opened to through traffic. At one time during its construction, as many as 100,000 laborers were employed on the road. The highest point on the Highway is 2,600 meters above the sea level, yet the road has to pass two deep valleys, the Mekong and the Salween, where the Highway dips a few thousand feet within a distance of several miles in order to reach the river bed, and rises precipitously again in the same manner just beyond the suspension bridges over the two turbulent rivers. The scarcity of local labor, the enervating climate, and the wild and sparsely populated country traversed, all combine to make the construction work difficult. But now, anyone may take a motor car and cover the distance between Chungking and Rangoon in two weeks, as Ambassador Johnson did soon after the Highway was completed. [Footnote 22: Communication of August 12, 1940; in the present author's possession.] The Minister Chang Kia-ngau (Chang Chia-ao) is one of the most eminent bankers in China. His Ministry is a model of business-like organization and systematic routines; he has a great reputation for getting things done in the American fashion--quickly, and without ceremony. In addition to these major ministries, there are the _Pu_ of Justice (part of the Judicial _Yüan_, sharing its war-time somnolence), of War (affiliated with the Military Affairs Commission), of Audit, of Personnel, and--in process of establishment--of Social Affairs, supplementing the Party-Ministry of Social Movements (_Shê-hui Yün-tung Pu_) now under the Kuomintang Headquarters.