INDIA AND BURMA FRONTIER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 4 November 1942, Page 2

INDIA AND BURMA FRONTIER

ALLIED AND ENEMY PATROLS (Rec. 10.45 a.m.) London, Nov. 3. With the cessation of rains on the India and Burma frontier area, Allied and Japanese patrol activity is increasing. A brief minor engagement between an Allied guerrilla force and a party of Japanese on the east fringe of the Chin Hills resulted in Japanese casualties. The Allies suffered no casualties. Japanese and also hostile Burmans under Japanese are attempting to terrorise the population and obtain information to hinder Allied- patrols. The New Delhi correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says it is regarded as very significant that Japan when she at present needs every available plane m the Pacific should throw comparatively large air forces against the line of Allied air bases forming a link with China. This can only mean the enemy is worried by the striking force the Americans are building up in China and also by the volume of material reaching American and Chinese Allied forces. The raids last week against Hong Kong and Canton are believed to have shown Japan that she miscalculated the effect of the cutting of the Burma Road. There is now a “Burma Road” in the air.—P.A.