BURMA CAMPAIGN

Grey River Argus, 26 September 1944, Page 5

BURMA CAMPAIGN

ENEMY ON THE RUN. KANDY, Sept. 24. Our Army’s advance on the Tiddim Road is being maintained, says an Allied South-east Asia communique. British patrols were active yesterday in a railway valley towards Namma. In the Myitkyina area, Chinese troops patrolled south of Kazu. Elsewhere there is nothing to report. An Associated Press correspondent says: There is no sign that the Japanese are likely to make a stand north of Tiddim. On the Mandalay railway and in the Kazu area we have lost contact with the enemy completeiy. KANDY. Sept. 25.

In its drive against Tiddim, the Fifth Indian Division made _ more progress against light resistance from scattered parties of the enemy, states an Allied South-east Asia communique. Heavy bombers of the strategic air force made a successful concentrated attack in daylight yesterday on railways, workshops and sidings at Myitnge, south of Mandalay Other heavy units bombed the same target last night with good results. Chinese took Pingka, -:2 miles south-westwards of Mangshih, in Yunnan Province. The prime objective in the Allied drive is to join up with the forces in Burma and reopen the supply route to China. Liberators bombed the Japaneseheld oart of the Burma Road near Chegang, causing landslides which closed the road in two places.