Savage Burmese Warners Harass Japanese

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 6, 8 January 1944, Page 5

Savage Burmese Warners Harass Japanese

Received Friday, 9.50 p.m.

NEW YORK, Jan. 7.

The Japanese-hating Kachins, savage warriors of the border mountain conn try, have been harassing Japanese communications deep inside Burma with deadly effect, says the United Press’s correspondent in a dispatch from British Headquarters on the Burma border. Three of the Kachins’ hit and run attacks within a fortnight caused the Japanese to reduce their Northern Burma garrisons because it proved too costly to keep them supplied. The most recent attack occurred at Sumprabum, 125 miles north of Myitkyina, where the British-paid Kachins headed by a British officer ambushed 30 Japanese, killed 19 and forced a supply column to return to Kyitkylia. In the previous week a patrol of Kachins and British Tommies ambushed another Japanese force, inflicting 60 casualties.