HARD AND CONFUSED FIGHTING
BATTLE FOR BURMA
1 POSITION ON IRRAWADDY FRONT I I ALLIED COUNTER-ATTACKS i London. April '2l Hard and confused lighting: continues in Burma on the Irrawaddy front. The British and Chinese counterattack made yesterday in the Yenangyaung area met with considerable success and enabled the main British troops to occupy new positions across the Pinchaung river. The Chinese are now occupying Yenangyaung and a Chungking communique states that they have driven the Japanese three miles to the south of the town. Further eastwards Chinese and Japanese forces are at grips 5 0 miles north of Toungoo. Planes of the U.S. Volunteer Group shot down a Japanese plane over a north Burma airport yesterday.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13623, 22 April 1942, Page 3
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