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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 154, 28 December 1942, Page 5

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COUNTER-MOVES FAIL

LONDON, December 27. . An Indian communique states: "Patrolling activity in the Arakari district continues without incident. An engagement took place on December 24, in which the enemy attempted to retake a position in this area. The first attempt failed and a flanking attempt was no more successful. The enemy suffered casualties; our losses were nil. "Yesterday R.A.F. fighters made several low-level attacks in the Toungoo area, damaged Japanese aircraft on the ground, and inflicted casualties on the enemy at Toungoo1 aerodrome. Fighters shot up railways and an oil tank and damaged a large river

steamer and other'craft on the Chidwin River. "None of our aircraft is missing." Though the material damage done by Japanese / raids is not extensive and casualties are comparatively light, four nights' successive raids have caused an exodus of lower classes, who loaded their belongings in packs carried on their heads and departed from the city by train arid on foot, says the Calcutta correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. Many hotel servants have left, causing some proprietors to refuse guests, and others to inform occupants that rooms cannot be swept and that they must take what meals are available.