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SITTANG FRONT

THREAT TO ALLIED FORCES I.NLMY EXERTING FULL STRENGTH RACE AGAINST TIME (Rec. 1.25 p.m.) New York, April 28. The Chinese are removing essential supplies from Wshio and evacuating the inhabitants because the Japanese not only menace the city but also threaten to outflank the Allied Forces on the Sittang front, reports the Chungking correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. Latest dispatches indicate that , the Japanese are exerting their full strength in Burma with a view to reaching before the monsoons a position for an attack against India. A Chinese spokesman announced that reinforcements for the Chinese troops were pouring into Burma and the highways near Lashio are being destroyed in an attempt to prevent the Japanese cutting off the Allied supply route to China. The spokesman admitted that the Japanese were drawing perilously close to the Burma Road and the entire Lashio-Mandalay railway was threatened by the enemy drive. Five Japanese divisions totalling 100,000 men supported by bombers, tanks and armoured cars are storming the southern edge of the upper Burma plateau. A Chungking message states that American Volunteer pilots shot down eleven Japanese fighters without loss when 27 Japanese bombers and 20 1 fighters attempted to raid the American flying base in northern Burma. Japanese planes then flew to Lashio, where they started great fires and bombed an aerodrome. The Chinese Government announced it had begun the construction of refineries to produce petrol from tung oil.—P.A.

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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 29 April 1942, Page 2

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SITTANG FRONT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 29 April 1942, Page 2

SITTANG FRONT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 29 April 1942, Page 2