ACTIVITY IN BURMA

Evening Star, Issue 24329, 19 October 1942, Page 4

ACTIVITY IN BURMA

PERSISTANT CHINESE RAIDS

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, October 17

General Sir Archibald Wavell’s tour of the Indian-Burma frontier was followed by news about the activity against the Japanese forces in Burma by Chinese mobile units in the region of the Burma Road, in South-western Yunnan.

According to .Chinese sources in London, these units are regularly crossing the deep gorges through which the river flows to harass advanced Japanese units which have pushed up" the Burma Road. These small-scale raids are a regular feature of operations which may he presumed to be leading up to the' part the Chinese will eventually play in the recapture of Burma when the times comes for an offensive. It has been intimated by General Wavell that the closest co-ordination is being maintained in these preliminary activities between the British. American, and Chinese commands in India and China, as is shown by the combined bombing policy of the British and American air forces and the Indian and American Army Corps in China. The latest target of the last-named force was again Lashio, an important Japanese supply base in Burma.