BURMA FRONT

Grey River Argus, 8 January 1944, Page 3

BURMA FRONT

NATIVES ATTACK JAPS (Rec. 10.55) NEW YORK, Jan. 6. A United Press of America correspondent, in a despatch from British headquarters on the Burma border, said: Japanese-hating Kachins, savage waryiors of the border mounta : n country, have been harrassing Japanese communications deep inside Burma, with deadly effect. 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 Sumprabum, 125 miles north of Myitkyiua,. where British-paid Kachins, headed by a British officer, ambushed sixty Japanese, and killed nineteen, and forced a supply column to return to Myitykyina. The previous week a patrol of Kachins and British Tommies ambushed another Japanese force, inflicting 60 casualties.