BATTLE IN CENTRAL BURMA
Further Chindit Success LONDON. May 10. Our troops have 'inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese at new points in central Burma, near Mawhi, This is tile first time fighting lias been reported near this town on the railway that runs up from Mandalay, though the railway has been attacked at many points by the Chindits. These supply linos load to the Japanese Eighteenth Division, which is facing General Stilwell’s Chinese and American columns. The Chinese, supported by tanks, artillery, and bombers, are attacking strong Japanese positions. In the Kohinia area men of tile Fourteenth Army lire keeping up their attacks against the Japanese positions on the outskirts of the town. These are still held by the enemy in some strength. North of Imphal and north-west of Kanola Tonbgi our advance has made some headway in difficult country.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 192, 12 May 1944, Page 5
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141BATTLE IN CENTRAL BURMA Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 192, 12 May 1944, Page 5
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