FIGHTING IN BURMA
THE JAPANESE ATTACKS EFFORT TO REGAIN INITIATIVE (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 15. Japanese troop movements suggest strong efforts to restore the situation on the north-west frontiers of Burma before the monsoon breaks, says the correspondent of The Times at General Headquarters, India. Since the end of last year’s rains the India Command has given little respite to the Japanese forward screen forming a wide arc from Akyab to the Hukwang Valley. The time has not been ripe for a major move into Burma, the correspondent adds, but the enemy’s advanced force has been heavily punished and the Japanese now feel the need to reassert themselves, for they cannot be sure what blows the British and Indian forces will deliver during the six weeks before the rains begin. They are attempting to regain the local initiative, for which purpose it is estimated that they are employing at least three divisions consisting of spearhead troops who have seen much fighting in China, Malaya, and Sumatra.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25176, 17 March 1943, Page 3
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