NORTH BURMA
ALLIES TAKE KAMNING FURTHER SUCCESSES AT KOHIMA Rccd. 8 p.ni. Colombo, June 17. The capture of Kamning, an im-i port anf Japanese supply base in North Burma, is announced in a communique from South-east Asia Command Headquarters. It fell to the Chinese 22nd. Division, after a sevendav siege kamning is one of the key points of th? Mogai.ng Valley, others being Mogaun.g and Myitkyina. Mogaung is threatened as Chinese columns yesteiday took Parentu, three and a-'half miles nurth-west of Mogaung. Myitkyina. to which the Japanese have clung stubbornly for weeks, is still under attack. Gains were made yesterday north and west of the town. On the Assam-Burma border, the fight through the present monsoon 1 Japanese have been pushed back furl her from Kohma, along a road running south to Imphal. spokesmai- said the Allies would light through the present monsoon season to clear the enemy from the Kohima Imphal road. planes were made at night. Many large fires were started, but the extent of the damage could not be ascertained.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 145, 19 June 1944, Page 5
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