ENTRY INTO BURMA.
MOVEMENT BY THAI TROOPS. LONDON, January 20. The Rangoon radio has announced that Thai troops have crossed the Burma border north of Miyawaddy. Fighting is proceeding. The Paris radio says that the Japanese who occupied Tavoy, on the west coast of Burma, are now proceeding north along the coast of the Gulf of Martaban.
JAPANESE CLAIM SUCCESSES. (Rec. 9.35 a.m.)) TOKIO, Jan. 21. A comuniqne claims that Japanese, attacking Cowmeander, north-east or Tavoy, annihilated the resisting enemy units.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 86, 22 January 1942, Page 5
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