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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1942, Page 3

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ON THE INDIAN FRONTIER BUT EARLY ATTACK THOUGHT POSSIBLE. R.A.F. POUNDING ENEMY BASES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CALCUTTA, May 29. It is now 18 days since there was contact between the British and Japanese forces in northern Burma. The Japanese are evidently making their biggest effort against China, but British military quarters do not exclude the possibility of an early attack against India. The barge traffic on the Chindwin River indicates that the Japanese are probably moving troops toward the Burma-Assam border. Reports that Japanese patrols have already crossed the Indian frontier appear to be unfounded. A spokesman in New-Delhi said that the reports of enemy scouts moving toward Chittagong probably arose from the fact that gangs of Burmese traitors, led by a few Japanese, had terrorised the northern countryside since the British withdrew from Akyab. In North Burma Japanese bases and transport are still being pounded by the R.A.F. HUGE FIRES STARTED ALLIED BOMBING OF RANGOON. LONDON, May 29. Allied aircraft in an attack on Rangoon smashed a power station and started huge fires which could be seen 100 miles away. ENEMY-RIVER CRAFT DAMAGED BY BRITISH BOMBERS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received Ibis Day, 11.0 a.m.) RUGBY, May 29. A R.A.F. communique issued in New Delhi says the R.A.F. bombed a jetty in the Chindwin River, five miles north of Kalewa, damaging enemy motor launches and inflicting casua - ties. Enemy barges north of Sittuang, on the Chindwin River, were also bombed. ___________