GOOD WORK IN BURMA
(1.40 p.m.) CHUNGKING, May 19. The "Chinese offensive in Yunnan has reached two points in the Kaoli Range running between the Sahveeri and Shweli Rivers. A Chinese spokesman said that the Myitkyina attack, combined with the cutting of the Myitkyina-Blmmo highway and the severance of the- Burma railwav at Indaw by British paratroops blocked the Japanese supply route to Northern Burma. The only remaining line for Japanese communications is the Burma Eoad. ; , "We are extremely optimistic over the situation in Western Yunnan and Northern Burma," he said.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 146, 20 May 1944, Page 6
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