BURMA TIDE TURNED
JAP. STAND EXPECTED COLOMBO. Jan. 2. To-day’s communique is the 3Gsth issued by the South-East Asia Command. During the year the Com.nand has been in existence the Japanese, who had swept all before them as far as the Indian border, have been riven back until nearly the whole of North Burma is cleared. The' Japanese withdrawals have, luring recent months, developed into r steady retreat. In the air, Allied planes are meeting practically no opposition. while the ships of the Royal Indian Navy and the East Indies Fleet ire operating almost without .interruption. , , . Although the tide has turned in Jurma, it would be unwise to assume hat the Japanese will not make a strong stand at some point. Mandalay, the. next big Allied objective, may see such a stand. Rangoon almost certainly will.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21603, 4 January 1945, Page 5
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136BURMA TIDE TURNED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21603, 4 January 1945, Page 5
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