JAPANESE AIM

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 81, 3 October 1944, Page 6

JAPANESE AIM

PRESERVING WAY OUT

LONDON, October 2. The Japanese defence of Tiddim is becoming a struggle to preserve an escape route from the Chin Hills the mountain joad back through Fort White to Kaleymo and. Chindwin, but the enemy's position is precarious P^L 3 T£ eSp?n£enJt of the Associated Press of Great Britain. The sick and wounded .have^ already been evacuated, and it .is believed the enemy has blown up his store dumps. While Jhe. Japs fought hard to hold Jwx mai n. Fourteenth Army drive along the Tiddinr Road from the north, men of the Fifth Indian Division moved through the hills eastward, and are now endangering the Japanese right Sfnk. They have the twofold object of thrusting to Tiddim and closing the

_^The Japanese have not yet thrown in the towel, and seem determined to contest each step along the cratered road. They: have laid booby traps atid mines, and are : now heavily shelling our forward positions. ,>.>• Meanwhile• our engineers are ;working like ants to keep open the lines of communication along Asia's worst road. Bulldozers are working night and .day pushing landslides off ; the Tiddim Road and attempting to preserve some surface on the muddy thoroughfare, where vehicles commonly sink down to. their sides in the bog.