HIT-AND-RUN RAIDERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 5, 8 January 1944, Page 5

HIT-AND-RUN RAIDERS

Rec. 9 a.m. NEW YORK, January 6. Japanese-hating Kachins, savage warriors of the border mountain country, have been harassing Japanese communications deep inside Burma, with deadly effect, says the United Press correspondent in a dispatch from the British headquarters on the Burma border. Three of the Kachins' hit-and-run attacks within a fortnight caused the Japanese to reduce their northern Burma garrisons because it proved too costly to keep them supplied. The most recent attack occurred at Sumprabum, 125 miles north of Myitkyina, where Kachins in British pay headed by a British officer ambushed 60 Japanese, killed 19, and forced a supply column to return to Myitkyina. The preyious week a patrol of Kachins and British Tommies ambushed another Japanese force, inflicting_6o casualties.