CRISIS FOR JAPANESE
SITUATION AT TIDDIM PRECARIOUS TWO ARMIES CLOSING IK (Rec. noon.) RUGBY, Oct. 8. The Japanese position in the Tiddim area is precarious. In addition to defending the village itself, their largest base in the Chin Hills, they must fight to keep open a main line of retreat along the mauntainous track leading through Fort White to Kalemyo and Kalewa. on the Chindwin River. ' The Fifth Indian Division . moved through the hills east of the road and attacked positions guarding the Japanese right flank. Some British have been reported only two miles from the Tiddim-Fort White Toad, and others cut the Tiddim road four miles from Tiddim. Lieutenant-general Stopford's Thirtythird Indian Corps alone has killed 10,000 Japanese in six months, and is now closing in on Tiddim, together with the Fourth Corps. It has liberated 1,190 inhabited localities.
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Evening Star, Issue 25301, 9 October 1944, Page 5
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