ALONG TIDDIM ROAD
OFFENSIVE IN BURMA Recd. 6 p.m. Rugby, Aug. 23. On the Tiddim road our advance to re-engage the enemy continues, slates a South-east Asia communique. In the Kabaw Valley artillery and aircraft are active against the Japanese positions on the Tamu-Sittaung track. In north Burma patrol activity has continued in the Kazu area and along the Nam Tabet River south of Myitkyina. Elements of the Thirty-sixth Division north of Pinbaiw inflicted casualties during patrolling. Aircraft of the Eastern Air Command scored direct hits on river steamers and many small craft during a series of sorties over the Chlndwin and Irrawaddy areas. Rail transport and troop quarters were successfully strafed.—B.O.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 203, 25 August 1944, Page 5
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