SUCCESS IN BURMA

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 233, 29 June 1944, Page 5

SUCCESS IN BURMA

Mogaung Taken; Myitkyina Surrounded (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 27. A South-east Asia communique states: “Mogaung, the Japanese stronghold in north Burma, has fallen. The capture was completed on June 26 by the Chinese 3Sth Division, in conjunction with the Chindits, after three days of ground assaults with overwhelming support by fighter-bomber aircraft.” The capture of Mogaung is regarded as an important step toward the recovery of northern Burma. The town is 13 miles west of Myitkyina, the northern terminus of the Burma railway, 'which has long been invested by the Allies. ..... Mogaung with its railway facilities served the Japanese as a supply centre throughout the Hukawng and Mogaung Valley campaign. South of Kamaing a Chinese column has trapped a large Japanese force in the 'two miles stretch north of’the Seton road block. At Myitkyina, American troops gained a further 100 yards in the northern sector of the town and are nearly in contact with the Chinese on the western edge. The town is surrounded. , . , . Seventy miles east of Myitkyina Chinese troops fighting to reopen the supply line with the Allies have cut Burma Road. Some ten miles to the north-east of this point there was bitter fighting yeserday near the Burma Road town of Lungling.