SAVAGE BURMESE WARRIORS

Evening Star, Issue 25068, 8 January 1944, Page 5

SAVAGE BURMESE WARRIORS

HIT-AND-RUN RAIDS ON JAPANESE NEW YORK. January 6. The Japanese-hating Kachins. savage warriors of the border mountain country, have been harassing the Japanese communications deep inside Burma with deadly effect, says the United \ Press correspondent in a despatch from, 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 Snmpraburu. 125 miles north of Myitkyina, where British-paid Kachins. headed by a British officer, ambushed 60 Japanese, killed 19. and forced a supply column to return-to Myitkyiua. The previous week a patrol ofi Kachins and British Tommies ambushed another Japanese force, inflicting 60 casualties.