LATE NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24896, 21 April 1942, Page 6

LATE NEWS

THE BURMA FRONT

LITTLE CHANGE IN SITUATION (Rec. 2 a.m.) LONDON, Apl. 20. It is stated in London that there has been no change in the situation in Burma. It is not known, however, whether the British forces still hold Taungdwingyi, a town midway between the Irrawaddy and the Sittang fronts. More news of a local successful action by British armoured forces is contained in the latest communique from Lurma. Japanese troops who had succeeded in pushing through our lines and establishing themselves 'to the north of our positions have been mopped up by the tanks, and the road block has been cleared. On the Sittang River front British troops are still co-operatinj; with Chinese guerrilla forces. AMERICAN PLANES HUGE PRODUCTION FIGURES (Rec 2 a.m.) NEW YORK, Apl. 19. With American plane production now nearing 4000 a month, the Christian Science Monitor says that our ability to carry that figure to 10,000 a month can np longer be doubted. The paper discloses that President Roosevelt's promised 60,000 planes this year are no longer " on order," but are actually leaving the factories, that 45,000 tanks will be produced, not some time in the future, but this year, that 20,000 anti-aircraft guns are now coming off the assembly lines, and 10,000,000 tons of shipping will "be hitting the water before the year ends."