TOUNGOO BATTLES
JAPANESE ENCIRCLEMENT BROKEN IN BURMA CHINESE NOW ADVANTAGEOUSLY PLACED. FOR DECISIVE STRUGGLE SOUTH OF MANDALAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) CHUNKING, March 31. An Army spokesman announced that Chinese reinforcements, moving southward, had occupied the railway station of Kyungon, ten miles north of Toungoo and made contact with the Chinese units holding out in eastern Toungoo. He added that the rescue force, had destroyed an enemy battalion, captured much booty and re-establish-ed communications. The spokesman explained that Toungoo was only an outpost and that the mountains northward would give the defenders advantages they lacked on the plains below the town. A communique reports the strengthening of Chinese positions north and east of Toungoo and adds that the Chinese who broke out of the Japanese encirclement have joined other Allied forces and also readjusted their positions for a decisive battle south of Mandalay.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1942, Page 4
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