BURMA CAMPAIGN

Grey River Argus, 21 February 1945, Page 5

BURMA CAMPAIGN

FURTHER ALLIED PROGRESS (Rec. 11.36) BOMBAY, Feb. 20 The Allied South East Command in a communique stated: An extension of the Thirty-third Corps’ bridgehead across the Irrawaddy opposite Myinum continued in the face of enemy counter-attacks and artillery fire’. Further progress has been made in the Singu bridgehead area' north of Mandalay. The Fifteenth Indian Corps cleared Kangau area of Japanese. British and Indian troops have linked up with West African forces who moved down the Kaladan Walley. Troops of the Chinese First Army operating in the northern combat area are approaching Hsenwi on the Burma Road, thirty-two miles from Lashio. In the Myitson sector the British Thirty-sixth Division has counted over 350 Japanese dead after the failure of an enemy counter-at-tack reported yesterday. The Japanese employed concentrated artillery fire and flame throwers for this attack. An Irrawaddy town, Chauk, was bombed and enemy gun positions strafed yesterday, by aircraft of the Eastern Air Command.