PRELUDE TO ATTACK
ARRIVAL OF PLANES
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11.30 a.m.) ,
■ ■ s • CHUNGKING, March 26. A Chinese army spokesman said that the arrival of 150 Japanese planes on the Upper Burma front ' from Rangoon on March 21 was the prelude to ah enemy offensive in force up the railway from Pyu a day later. The spokesman confirmed the fact that 1000 Japanese had outflanked the Chinese forces in the United Nations' line and reached a point north of Toungoo, probably cutting the railway to Mandalay. He described the situation as "not optimistic but not serious Mther." Estimating the Japanese strength In Burma at three divisions, he said that one was operat*tog along the Rangoori-Mandalay railway, another along the Ran-goon-Prome railway westward, and the third was in reserve.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 73, 27 March 1942, Page 5
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