CONVOY DISPERSED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 223, 17 June 1944, Page 7

CONVOY DISPERSED

Enemy Reverse In Burma (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 15. On the Kohima sector there has been some patrol activity. Our artillery shelled enemy positions, states a South-east Asia communique. Moving north from Kanglatongbi, our troops .gained ground. An entire Japanese convoy moving east on one sector was destroyed or dispersed. Seventy-five dead Japanese were counted and many pack animals were killed or taken. R.A.F. heavy bombers on Wednesday successfully attacked targets in the Tiddim road area. On Tuesday and Wednesday R.A.F. fighters and fighter-bombers attacked enemy positions, tanks, motor transport, troop concentrations, and a bridge in the Manipur sector. Two Allied aircraft are missing. In northern Burma, a strong force of Chindits, mainly British, have stormed their way through the jungle to attack the important Japanese base of Maungdaw, more than 200 miles north ot Mandalay. The Chindits are developing the attack on a large scale against formidable defensive positions. “The time has now come for a Japanese offensive in East Asin,” said General lojo in a speech at a meeting of the Munitions Supply Committee. . -“The first signs of our determined drive can be seen in the offensive strategy initiated in China in Honan province and on the Indo-Burma frontier.”