DEFEAT OF JAPANESE
RETREAT BECOMES ROUT . LONDON, Sept. 20 The Japanese retreat down the Tiddlm Road, on the Burma-Assam border, has become a rout, reports the Associated Press correspondent. Thrown into confusion by the speed with which the Fourteenth Army troops forced the crossings of the Manipur River, hundreds of Japanese are fleeing along the road behind a light screen of artillery. Large camps near the river, crowded with tired, half-starved survivors of the running fight, which lasted 100 miles along the Tiddim Road, had to be hastily evacuated. Beyond Tongzang. the last village before reaching Tiddim, fleeing Japanese are having to run the gauntlet of ambushes laid by long-range penetration forces which have been behind the Japanese lines for many weeks.
So serious have been the losses inflicted on the Japanese that they were compelled to use tanks to hold the road open.
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22460, 22 September 1944, Page 4
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