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TO THE SIAMESE BORDER STORY OF THE BATTLE OF TOUNGOO. DETAILS OF JAPANESE LOSSES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, April 6. A communique, relating to the Chinese forces in Burma, received in London, states: “Reports from the Chinese field headquarters indicate that the Japanese launched a small attack on the Mawchi-Toungoo highway, using about one battalion of infantry. Yesterday there were two bombing raids on Chinese troop positions. The Chinese suffered the loss of one lorry destroyed and some wounded in the two raids. “A summary of the twelve-day battle of Toungoo has been received. During the furious fighting which took place, 3,700 Japanese were killed and six mortars, one mountain gun, one field gun, thirteen bicycles, 100 rifles and 70 horses were captured. “The Toungoo-Mawchi front was quiet today.” Mawchi is some 40 miles east of Toungoo and this is first mention of an extension of the front from the Sittang River to the Siamese frontier.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1942, Page 3
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