Burma Campaign

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 55, 6 March 1943, Page 5

Burma Campaign

Received Friday, 11.30 p.m. LONDON, Mar. 5. Tlie British. United Press correspondent on the Burma front reports that the British advance has been slowing up in the past three weeks and bad weather is likely further to impede progress. Showers which usually precede the heavy rains, have been increasing. The Allies preoccupation in the Mediterranean has involved the use there of transports and warships needed for large-scale attacks against Burma. Sporadic disturbances in. India have also affected the Burma campaign. One of our small naval craft on Wednesday night encountered five Japanese supply vessels at the mouth of the Mayu river and one enemy vessel was captured and prisoners taken. We suffered neither casualties nor damage. B.A.F. bombers last night attacked Akyab, heavy cloud preventing accurate observation of results. Blenheim bombers yesterday successfully bombed enemy positions at Rathedaung and Kamai, a few miles further east. Fighter patrols on Wednesday night shot up Japanese rail and road transport in the area between Segyi and Kyaupadaung All our planes returned safely. The Mayor acknowledges the receipt of £SO as a donation to the Patriotic Funds, being the proceeds of the Palmerston North Little Theatre Society’s recent production “Winter Sunshine.”