GAIN IN NORTH BURMA
Enemy Supply Base Taken (Received Juul 18, 7.50 p.m.) COLOMBO. June 17. The capture of Kamaing, an important Japanese supply base in north Burma, is announced in a communique from the .South-east Asia Command headquarters. It fell to the Chinese Twenty-Seeond Division after a seven-day siege Kamaing is one of I lie key points, or the Mogaung Valley, the others being Mogaung and Myilkyina. Mogaung is threatened as Chinese columns yesterday took Parentu, three and a half miles north-west of Mogaung. Myitkyinn, to which the Japanese have clung stubbornly for weeks, is still under attack. Gams were made yesterday north and west of the town. On the Assam-Burma border, the Japanese have been pushed back farther from Koliima along the road running south to Imphal. A spokesman said the Allies would fight through the present monsoon season to clear the enemy from tin.: Koliima-Implial road.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 224, 19 June 1944, Page 6
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149GAIN IN NORTH BURMA Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 224, 19 June 1944, Page 6
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