JAP. BASE STRAFED
PLANES SET ON FIRE ANGLO-U.S. AIR DEFENCE (Reed. Jan. 12, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 11. Five British and nine American planes strafed the Japanese air base at Tak, near the Burma-Thailand border and set fire to three Japanese planes on the ground. The attackers machine-gunned planes, lorries, and buildings. All the aircraft returned. Air Vice-Marshal F. D. Stevenson has arrived in Rangoon from England to assume command of the Royal Air Force in Burma. Major-General Dennys, leader of the British military mission in China, paid a tribute to British and American pilots operating in Burma. “They have saved Rangoon from the systematic bombing in which the Japanese delighted in China,” he said. Mass meetings protesting against alleged Japanese atrocities were held ,throughout Burma. Resolutions adopted stated that the Burmese will fight to the death against the Japanese. The Japanese are imposing forced labour on the Burmese near the Thailand border. Many were killed in attempting to escape.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20661, 12 January 1942, Page 5
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