NEW INVASION OF YUNNAN
Japanese And Thais
(Received January 24, 11.20 p.m.) CHUNGKING, January 23. An official spokesman revealed that 48,000 Japanese and Thai troops have penetrated a few miles into Yunnan Province in au apparent effort to capture the bases of Nankiau, Fohai and Cheli, across the border from the northern Shan States because of the Japanese fears of an Allied invasion of Burma.
Meanwhile the 24-day Japanese campaign in the Tapieh mountains of Hupeh and Anhwei provinces has failed, with the Chinese regaining all the points which the enemy had. occupied.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 102, 25 January 1943, Page 5
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93NEW INVASION OF YUNNAN Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 102, 25 January 1943, Page 5
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