BURMA CAMPAIGN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1942, Page 3

BURMA CAMPAIGN

ENEMY PUSHING UP v IRRAWADDY SOME HELP FROM BURMESE TRAITORS. ALLIED AIR ATTACKS > ON TRANSPORT. x LONDON, March 18. In their northward drive in Burma, the Japanese are using infiltration tactics. On the Irrawaddy front they are reported to have pushed up the river in boats and to have landed at a point 80 miles north of Rangoon on the approach to Mandalay. After making contact with traitor Burmese forces they withdrew. The Japanese are about fifty miles north of Rangoon on the road to Prome. Allied planes have been in action over the Japanese lines in the rear. A communique from the American Volunteer Group states that enemy transport, troops and mechanised forces were bombed on the banks of the Sitfang River.

MR F.B. SAYRE PHILIPPINES COMMISSIONER. ON WAY TO WASHINGTON TO REPORT. (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON. March 18. President Roosevelt revealed that Mr Francis B. Sayre. United States High Commissioner in the Philippines had arrived in Honolulu. He will go to Washington to report. The President added that Mr Sayre probably would return to the South-West Pacific as soon as possible, but did not say that he would return to the Philippines.