Two Japanese columns are driving into the Yunnan province of Free China, one eastward along the Burma Road and the other northward between the Salween and Mekong Rivers. The former has been repulsed by the Chinese at the Salween crossing and thrown back across the river. A third enemy column « concentrated on the Indo-China frontier, threatening to combine in a converging movement on Kunming. The map also shows the Spearheads of the Japanese advance into North Burma op the ChindwJn and Irrawaddy valley*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24279, 21 May 1942, Page 5
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83Two Japanese columns are driving into the Yunnan province of Free China, one eastward along the Burma Road and the other northward between the Salween and Mekong Rivers. The former has been repulsed by the Chinese at the Salween crossing and thrown back across the river. A third enemy column « concentrated on the Indo-China frontier, threatening to combine in a converging movement on Kunming. The map also shows the Spearheads of the Japanese advance into North Burma op the ChindwJn and Irrawaddy valley* New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24279, 21 May 1942, Page 5
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