WAR IN BURMA
END COMING RAPIDLY
JAPS WITHOUT TRANSPORT (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. 12.30 p.m. BOMBAY, April 27. The war in Burma is coming rapidly to an end—more rapidly than even the British commanders expected, says the special correspondent of the Australian Associated Press in Burma. Since the break-out from Meiktila, 14th Army troops have been moving down the Mandalay-Rangoon railway at high speed, killing as many Japanese as 1000 a day.
Although this is a small number by European standards, it has made such a hole in General Komura's Burma Army that he would be justified if he decided to withdraw into Thailand and Indo-China.
The Japanese general, thanks to the British armoured columns and the skilled air support, commands an army without, transport. The southerly advance has been aided by two related factors, both springing from the operations of the 15th Corps in Arakan. The fighting in this coastal belt which culminated in the capture of' Taungup drew off the Japanese who otherwise would have worried the right flank of the advancing troops. It also cleared the way for sea supply to Akyab and the Ramree Islands.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 99, 28 April 1945, Page 7
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