RAID SMASHED
JAPANESE IN RANGOON AREA. ALLIES DOWN TWENTY PLANES. CONCENTRATION IN THAILAND. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 23. It is officially announced in Rangoon that the British and American Air Forces smashed a mass air raid by over 50 Japanese planes in tiie Rangoon area to-day. They shot down 20 Japanese planes. The Associated* Press correspondent at Rangoon says that the Japanese continue to infiltrate in the frontier area, east of Moulmoin,
Concentration of forces, including elephants, in Thailand, on the SI a ween river east of Papun, have been observed. The country west of Papun is flat alluvial, eliminating surprise tactics, but offering no topographical obstacles to a drive to cut the Burma Road.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 88, 24 January 1942, Page 5
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