BURMESE WARRIORS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25428, 8 January 1944, Page 5

BURMESE WARRIORS

HARASSING TIJE JAPANESE

HIT-AND-RUN ATTACKS (Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan 6. The Japanese-hating Kachins, savage warriors of the border mountain country, have been harassing the Japanese communications deep inside Burma with deadly effect, says the United Press correspondent in a despatch from British headquarters on the Burma border. Three of the Kachin’s hit-and-run attacks within a fortnight caused the Japanese to reduce their northern Burma garrisons because it proved too costly to keep them supplied. The most recent attack occurred at Sumprabum, T 25 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 Mvitkyina. The previous week a patrol of Kachins and British Tommies ambushed another Japanese force, inflicting 60 casualties.