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AGAINST JAPANESE IN BURMA MAUNGDAW ATTACKED BY LAND & SEA. STEAMERS & OTHER TARGETS DAMAGED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) RUGBY, October 18. Maungdaw, in Burma, was the object of a land attack on Saturday and an air attack yesterday, states an India communique A party of British troops, under cover of diversionary raids by patrols, successfully attacked Maungdaw with mortar fire on Saturday night. Japanese positions were attacked yesterday morning by dive-bombers and Hurricanes attacked enemy-occu-pied villages in. the Maungdaw area and started large fires. Beaufighters damaged a number of river craft, including three large steamers and two oil barges.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1943, Page 3
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104BRISK ACTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1943, Page 3
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