STRONG FORCES
EMPLOYED BY JAPANESE IN NORTH-WEST BURMA. ATTEMPT TO RESTORE SITUATION (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 15. Japanese troop movements suggest strong efforts to restore the ’ situation on the north-west frontiers of Burma before the monsoon breaks, says “The Times” correspondent at general headquarters, India. The India Command has given little respite since the end of last year’s rains to the Japanese forward screen forming a wide arc from Akyab to the Hakawing Valley. The time has not been ripe for a major move into Burma but the enemy’s advanced forces has been heavily punished and the Japanese now feel the need to reassert themselves, for they cannot be sure what blows the British and Indian forces will deliver during the six weeks before the rains begin. They are attempting to regain the local initiative, for which purpose they are estimated to be employing at least three divisions, consisting of spearhead troops who have seen much fighting in China, Malaya and Sumatara.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 March 1943, Page 3
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