REFUGEES FROM BURMA
CUT OFF BY MONSOONS SUPPLIES DROPPED BY PLANE (Rec. 11.45 a.m.) Calcutta, Oct. 21. As the result of a respite in thr monsoons, refugees who were cut off for months in the Burmese jungle by torrential rain are now arriving in India. Refugees were kept alive for months by supplies dropped from aircraft which crossed treacherous mountains and through heavy airpocketed cloud. Guides from Assam attempted to bring groups of refugees back but found some of them in such a bad state they had to await better weather and medical supplies. British officers and Indian troops are constantly patrolling large areas of northern Burma gaining information about the enemy’s dispositions —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 22 October 1942, Page 5
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