GALLANT EFFORT
MADE BY CHINESE TROOPS JAPANESE DRIVE CHECKED IN BURMA. CAPITAL OF SHAN STATES RETAKEN. LONDON, April 26. In Burma the Chinese have cheeked the enemy’s northward drive in Hie Shan States. A Chungking communique states that Chinese forces have driven the Japanese from- Taung-gyi, lhe capital of the States, about 300 miles north-east of Mandalay.
As soon as the Japanese were in possession they attempted to penetrate the Chinese positions to the west, but the heights dominating the city were recaptured by the Chinese and from these heights the Chinese launched a full-scale attack and recaptured the city. Fresh enemy troops who counterattacked failed to retrieve the position.
The Japanese have made more headway in their thrust in the Sittang Valley. A Japanese column has fought its way to Yamethin and pushed on another twelve miles to the outskirts of Piawbwe, 100 miles south of Mandalay. On the Irrawaddy front the position is unchanged.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1942, Page 3
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