NEW TACTICS
ADOPTED IN BURMA MEETING THE JAPANESE INVASION. BRITISH TROOPS RECAPTURE TOWN. LONDON, March 16. A message from Mandalay states that new tactics and a new general strategy have been designed to meet the Japanese invasion. Another message from Mandalay late on Saturday stated that British troops in the Sittang River Valley recaptured the town of Shwegyin, which is on the east bank of the river, 10 miles east of the Mandalay road and railway and 100 miles north-east of Rangoon. A New Delhi communique yesterday stated that operations in this area were proceeding satisfactorily. Planes attacked the enemy moving northward from Rangoon.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 March 1942, Page 3
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