JAPANESE ATTACK
SHORT SUCCESS IN BURMA Rec. 11 a.m. RUGBY, June 14., In the- Imphal sector on the Burma, front, following the arrival of local! reinforcements, the Japanese on Monoday morning, with artillery and tank support, strongly attacked our positions at Ningthoukhong and penetrated our perimeter, states a South-east Asia communique. In a counter-attack, we regained all the lost ground. Our advance northwards from Kanglatongbi was continued. A ridge 18 miles north-north-east of Imphal has been cleared of the enemy and large dumps of ammunition have been captured. . . _ .. The Japanese are fighting in Myitkyina with their backs to the wall, says a message from Burma. They,? , are strongly entrenched at numerous ' strategic points.' The battle for Myitkyina has re* solved itself into a slow slogging match, in which the Japanese have to, be driven from bunkers. —8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 140, 15 June 1944, Page 5
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