VIOLENT FIGHTING
IN YUNNAN FRONTIER AREA JAPANESE REINFORCED. BRITISH TROOPS COUNTERATTACK IN NORTH. LONDON, May 12. The battle of the Burma. Road has flared up with renewed violence. A Chungking communique states that the Japanese have received reinforcements and have launched a counter-attack. It is not clear at what point or how near to the border the enemy is making his thrust. It is stated that the Chinese province of Yunnan is still in danger of invasion. Further west in Burma the enemy spearhead last Sunday had reached a point only 50 miles from the Assam frontier, but General Alexander's forces counter-attacked and threw the enemy back to the south. When the British forces were withdrawing along the Chindwin River, they turned and struck back at the Japanese at a town 140 miles north-west of Mandalay. The enemy were making their way up the river in motor craft, with a field gun, machine-guns and mortars. At first about 300 strong, they were later reinforced. The British troops fought stubbornly for the ferry all day, until the Japanese, failing to take it, broke off the engagement. An earlier message from Chungking states that the Chinese lines of entrapment are holding fast round the remnants of the Japanese column enveloped and slaughtered on the Burma Road, despite reinforcements. Some 250 miles southward, another Chinese army, by-passed in the Japanese advance, has smashed three attacks by a fresh Japanese column in the Loilem sector near the Salween River. The Chinese are receiving air support from the American Volunteer Group. ENEMY DRIVEN SOUTH BRITISH OFFICIAL REPORT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, May 12. A Burma communique states: “Enemy action previously reported at Shwegyin, five to ten miles below Kalewa, on the Chindwin River, continued throughout Sunday, in the vivinity of a ferry. The enemy force, originally numbering about 300, with at least one gun, besides light machineguns and mortars, was reinforced latei during the day. Our forces counterattacked in the afternoon and succeeded in driving the enemy to the south. Contact was broken with the enemy in the evening. It appeared that the enemy forces had travelled up the river, using several motor craft. “On other parts of the front operations are proceeding according to plan.” i CORDON HOLDS ROUND TRAPPED JAPANESE IN YUNNAN. GUERILLAS STILL IN ACTION NEAR MANDALAY. (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) NEW DELHI, May 12. The Japanese have evacuated Wanting, on the Yunnan-Burmese border, states a message from Chunking. The Japanese advance guard is now attempting to break out of the Chinese cordon at Chefang, 25 miles fi om the Burmese frontier. Chinese guerillas are still in action in the Mandalay area.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1942, Page 3
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