BURMESE FRONT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1942, Page 4

BURMESE FRONT

SITUATION UNCHANGED ATTACKS ON ENEMY POSITIONS & TRANSPORT. BRITISH AND INDIAN PLANES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) RUGBY, February 17. A Rangoon communique states: “The situation on the new Bilin front is unchanged. Our troops have come into contact with all forces of the enemy to the south. No air raids over Burma •were reported last night. “In the course of the day our bombers and fighters delivered a number of attacks on enemy positions, stores and transportation in the Moulmein area. Reconnaissances over enemy territory were carried out during the day by aircraft of the R.A.F. and Indian Air Force.” AT GREAT HEIGHT JAPANESE PLANE FLIES OVER DARWIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A Darwin message says it is authoritatively stated that a Japanese reconnaissance aircraft flew over Darwin last week. The plane was reported to be flying at about 22,000 feet. JAPANESE TACTICS AGAINST REFUGEE CAMPS IN PHILIPPINES. BOMBS FOLLOW PROPAGANDA PAMPHLETS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.56 a.m.) RUGBY, February 17. A Washington communique states that for several days enemy aeroplanes have been dropping poorly-printed leaflets on refugee camps behind the American lines in Luzon. These pamphlets, in English, Spanish and Tagalog, profess great friendship for the Filipinos and exhorted them to co-op-erate with the invaders and to join the “Great Asia co-prosperity sphere.” “Yesterday,” the communique adds, “bombs were substituted for pamphlets. These fell on a refugee camp at the defenceless village of Cabcaben. Eighteen women and five children were killed in this attack and 13 women and nine children wounded.