FAR EAST WAR
BURMA AND SIAM-
RUGBY, January 21
Across the Burmese border, progress has been maintained and ex-, tended in the Buthidaung sector, reports the South-east Asia Headquarters at Delhi. Yesterday, Japanese' positions four miles north-east of Buthidaung wtfre successfully attacked. Hand-to-hand fighting took place, and mopping-up operations are still in progress. Three counterattacks have been repulsed. In the Hukwang Valley. Chinese operating east of Tanai River continue to advance, and report that a strong Jap. patrol was wiped out. United States bombers attacked Bangkok on Wednesday night, concentrating on The railway station and Don Mating airfield, while R.A.F. bombers raided an armament factory. JAP. SHIPS SUNK (Reed. 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 21. Liberators . sank a seventeenhundred ton passenger freighter, and a fifteen-hundred ton tanker in a China Sea sweep, says General Stilwell’s communique. All the aircraft returned safely.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 January 1944, Page 5
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