ENEMY DISORGANIZED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 230, 26 June 1944, Page 5

ENEMY DISORGANIZED

Rapid British Advance In

Burma (Received June 25, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 24. The retreating Japanese are utterly disorganized by the rapidity of our advance in the Kohima-Imphal area, Burma, and the destruction of their fifteenth and thirty-first divisions has become a slaughter. The proportion of the nationalites ot the fighting troops employed against the Japanese in this area is British 47 per cent., Indian 36, Gurkha 16 and Burmese 1. From Bishenpur comes a report that the Japanese are using Molotov cocktails against British tanks, in addition to a new magnetized bomb, similar in effect to the sticky bomb. It is claimed that the Chindits in the last three days have killed 350 Japanese in the Mogaung area. A Chungking communique says there is heavy fighting on the outskirts of Magaung, where the besieged Japanese have suffered at least a further 550 casualties. The Chinese stormed another hill village westward of Mogaung and also occupied a rifle range at the western end of Myitkyina, where the Japanese are still resisting the ceaseless pressure of the Allied troops.