END OF INVASION OF INDIA
Three Divisions Routed (British Official Wireless.) (Received August 18, 7.30 p.m.) RUGBY, August 17. No organized Japanese force is now felt on Indian territory, says the Southeast Asia communique. The Fourteenth Army, pursuing the retreating Japanese along the Tiddim Road, crossed the border on Wednesday afternoon, and the main force is two miles inside Burma. Only the sick and' stragglers remain on the Indian side. The Japanese invasion of India thus comes to an end with the rout of the three divisions with which it was entered upon. In north Burma the Japanese continue to retreat. The present line south of Mogaung and Myitkyina-Mandalay railway, to Kazu, 20 miles down the Myitkyina-Bhano Road.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 277, 19 August 1944, Page 7
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