COMMUNICATIONS HARASSED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 8 January 1944, Page 5

COMMUNICATIONS HARASSED

JAPANESE IN NORTH BURMA WORK OF SAVAGE KACHIN WARRIORS N*w York, Jan. 6. Japanese-hating Kachins, savage warriors of border mountain country, have been harassing Japanese communications deep inside Burma with deadly effect, says a United Press of America correspondent in a dispatch from Burma 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 they proved too costly to keep them supplied. The most recent attack occurred at Sumprabum. 125 miles north of Myitkyina, where British-paid Kachins. headed by a British officer, ambushed 60 Japanese, killed 19 and forced a supply column to return to Myitkyina. The previous week a patrol of Kachins and British Tommies ambushed another Japanese force inflicting 60 casualties.