BURMA CAMPAIGNS

Grey River Argus, 21 June 1944, Page 3

BURMA CAMPAIGNS

MORE CHINESE GAINS Tiangzup Captured lAus. & N.Z. Press Assn.] (Rec. 11.54) CHUNGKING, June 20. A Chinese communique reports that after six weeks’ siege Gurkhas and Kachins have captured the heavily defended Tiangzup, forty miles north of Myitkyina. The Chinese in the Moga'uhg Valley advanced five miles from Kamaing. Chinese and Chindits continue to exert pressure on the enemy around Mogaung. The situation around Myitkyina is unchanged. CHINESE EVACUTE LUNGLING CHUNGKING, June 19. Threatened with encirclement, the Chinese evacuated Lungling. This first major set-back in the offensive I was offset somewhat by new Chinese 1 gains in the mountains and valleys of Tenchung. LUNG-LING’S FALL A SERIOUS SETBACK. (Rec. 8.20) NEW YORK, June 19 The “New York Times” correspondent at the headquarters of the Chinese expeditionary force in Burma says that General Sung Hsi Lien’s withdrawal from Lungling in the face of a threatened enemy pincer movement is regarded as a- serious setback. It is pointed out that to retake Lungling the Chinese now have to overcome a much larger concentration of enemy forces, who again have motor communication with Tengchung and may be able to reopen supply routes and communications southward to Bhamo. Ever since the capture of Lungling on June 10, General Sung has 'reported a shortage of food and ammunition, particularly artillery and mortar shells. The weather hampered aerial shipments.