NORTHERN BURMA
Kachens Harass Japanese
(8.20 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, savs the correspondent of the British United Press in a dispatch from British headquarters on the Burma border. Thred Kachin 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, 125 miles north of Myitkyina, where Britishpaid Kachins, headed by a British officer, ambushed 60 Japanese, killed 19, and forced a supply column to return to Mvitkyina. In the previous week a patrol of Kachins and British “Tommies” ambushed another Japanese force, inflicting 60 casualties.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22785, 8 January 1944, Page 5
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128NORTHERN BURMA Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22785, 8 January 1944, Page 5
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