HARRYING THE JAPS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 6, 8 January 1944, Page 5

HARRYING THE JAPS

KACHINS IN BURMA Rccd. 9 p.m. New York, Jan. S. The Japanese-hating Kachins, savage warriors of the border mountain country, have been harassing 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 Kachins’ 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 British-paid Kachins headed by a British officer ambushed 60 Japanese, killed 19 and forced the supply column to return to Myitkyina. The previous week a patrol of Kachins and British Tommies ambushed another Japanese force, inflicting 60 casualties.