ARAKAN COAST RAIDS
FASTER INDIAN PROGRESS ENEMY'S DEFENCE TASK (N.Z. Press Association.—Copyright.) (Rec. 11.15 a.m.) KAND'Y, Dec. 20. The Indian Corps' advance down the Arakan coastal strip has been .speeded up by a series of co-or-dinated seaborne strikes and raids made in recent weeks, says an Associated Press correspondent. Raiding parties landed from small ships of the Royal Indian Navy. Air reconnaissance photographs show that since the landings the Japanese have " been hastily constructing defences. The Japanese have a difficult task to defend the 300-mile long sea-
board with practically no sea cover. Ships of the Royal Indian.' Navy and the East Indies Fleet have almost a free' run of the Bay of Bengal.
A Southeast Asia communique reports that West African troops have occupied Kindaung, six miles southeast of Buithidaung. Our forward patrols are now within four miles of Indin on the coast 25 miles south-east of Maungdaw. In the northern combat area British troops have occupied Kunbaung, 12 miles south oF Indaw. Fourteenth Army patrols have roached a point 80 miles east i;F Suwegyin.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 20, 21 December 1944, Page 5
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176ARAKAN COAST RAIDS Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 20, 21 December 1944, Page 5
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