FEELING THEIR WAY
BRITISH IN BURMA
LONDON, February 15. The British Deputy Com-mander-in-Chief in India, General Sir Atan Hartley, told reporters in New Delhi today: "We arc quietly feeling our way in Burma, knowing: now that we must not underestimate the Japanese." Me added that "we had learned from bitter experience, both in Burma and in Malaya, of the sort of tactics which we are up against," especially against what is called the enemy's suicide methods. He pointed out that at the moment India's fighting forces were not so directly involved in the war as they had been or would be, but recalled the fine record of the Indian divisions in North Africa, and declared: "The Empire, and indeed all the United Nations, have reason to be grateful to them."
There is no fresh news of any land fighting in Burma, but the R.A.F. has been out again bombing and strafing enemy-occupied villages in the Akyab area. American fighter-bombers flew to central Burma on Saturday and shot up a place used by the Japanese as their headquarters. The barracks were destroyed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 39, 16 February 1943, Page 5
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181FEELING THEIR WAY Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 39, 16 February 1943, Page 5
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