JAPANESE IN YUNNAN
BID TO GAIN BASES
CHUNGKING, Jan. 24 An official spokesman revealed that 48,000 Japanese and Thai troops penetrated a few miles into Yu-nnan Province in an apparent effort to capture bases at Nankian, Fohai and Cheli across the border of the Northern Shan States, because of Japanese fears of an Allied invasion of Burma, Meanwhile, the 2 4-day" Japanese campaign in the Tapieh mountains of Hupeh and Anhwei Provinces lias failed, with the Chinese regaining all the enemy-occupied points.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13056, 26 January 1943, Page 5
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