BURMA CAMPAIGN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 152, 29 June 1945, Page 5

BURMA CAMPAIGN

Rangoon Victory Parade Did Not Ring Down Curtain

BITTER FIGHTING AHEAD

N.Z.P.A. and British Wireless Rec. 1.30 p.m. , LONDON, June 28. Rangoon's victory parade held earlier this month did not, as was generally supposed, ring down the curtain on the Burma campaign with nothing left but the mopping up of pockets and small parties of Japanese, writes a Rangoon correspondent. There is still a war in the monsoonsodden jungles of Burma, and British and Indian soldiers are still being killed, wounded and maimed. On the hills of the Pegu Yomas there are some thousands of desperate, hungry and sick Japanese who nevertheless can fight and will kill or be killed in an attempt to escape, the correspondent adds. These forces have recovered from the shock of the loss of Rangoon, and have regrouped themselves more quickly than was expected. In the meantime the war is in a stage of Pa A°SoUth-east Asia Command communique says: "Indian troops nortnof the Tharrawaddy have eliminated a Japanese patrol, East of Letpadan we have cleared more villages. Gurkha patrols have scattered a party of Japanese north-east of Minhla, on the Prpme-Rangoon railway." ,