ALLIED RAIDS ON BURMA

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 240, 12 October 1942, Page 5

ALLIED RAIDS ON BURMA

COMMUNICATION S AND AIRFIELD S.

B.O.W.

RUGBY, Oct. 10.

A. U.S. Air Force communique issued in India gives further details of raids by American planes in upper Burma and part of China last week- end. On Friday a railway bridge south of Mojang on the Man-dalay-Myitkina railway was destroyed by bombs and the railway track was also damaged. The following day the offensive was switched to China, where a large suspension bridge ten miles south of Tingka, in Yunnan, was liit by bombs. An enemy airfield at Loiwing w.as also bombed, seven direct hits being' scored on the runway. One American plane is missing. A New Delhi communique states that Blenheim bombers attacked Pakokku in Burma yesterday. Hits were scored on a runway. Bombs were also dropped on targets on the Sateaing-Shwebo railway, warehouses and tracks being bombed. .Anti- aircraft fire was encountered, but all our planes returned safely. The Chinese Press urges the United Nations to launch a campaign to drive the Japanese from Burma. The Central China correspondent of the Daily News says that the Chinese are prepared and anxious to attack Burma as sbon as General Wavell realises its .importance and begins the overdue task of reconquest.