SUSTAINED ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1943, Page 3

SUSTAINED ATTACKS

MADE BY R.A.F. IN BURMA .i- 1 1 1 Y ON ENEMY-OCCUPIED VILLAGES. JAPANESE RIVER CRAFT HIT. LONDON, January 14. lii Burma, for the sixth day running, the R.A.F. raided enemy occupied villages in the Akyab area. Among the targets hit were Japanese craft on a river. "•? JUNGLE WARFARE USEFUL GUERILLA FORCES. ORGANISED BY BRITISH AUTHORITIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 13. Burmese guerillas silently traversing forest trails and penetrating the jungles are testing the Japanese strength, says the British United Press correspondent with the British forces in Burma. Some have advanced as far as the Chindwin River, which the Japanese are using as a supply route for their forces in the most northerly part of the country. The guerillas work like the Chinese, Russian and Yugoslav irregulars, with tough Red Indian methods. They include many from India and Burma, and the border hill tl’ibes. They marched scores of miles to volunteer because the Japanese tore down their villages and molested their people. The British give them a gun and 30s a month as pay and organise small groups and send them back to Japan-ese-held territory where parties of half a dozen live on the country and sleep when and where they can. Thus, when the big push comes, officers and men who are now learning the ways of the jungle, will have many of the tribal peoples on their side and will be able to count on effective help from the Khamtis in the Patkai Naga hills in the extreme north, through the Chin hills to the Lushai in the Arakan hills in the south. The British are preparing all along the border io beat the Japanese at their own game of jungle warfare.