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Rapid Withdrawal From Kohima
LONDON, June 7. .The Japanese in the Kohima area are withdrawing so rapidly that Allied patrols have been finable to keep up with them, reports Reuter's Kandy correspondent. They have been frustrated in their ultimate objective, which was to get astride the railway to Ledo. Their defeat was due, first, to a grim British defence, second, to a strong British onslaught; third, to the harassing of Japanese communications.
It is now difficult to see where the Japanese can make a stand. The British United Press correspondent at South-east Asia Command headquarters, says that the Japanese are retreating as fast as possible from the bombers in India in, a race to beat the British and the monsoon. The remnants of the large force which. tried to drive into India, and which has been cut up by the British defences, is now pulling out from the Kohima area with their supply lines threatened by the monsoon.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 216, 9 June 1944, Page 6
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