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ALLIED SUCCESS IN BURMA (Received Jan. 4, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 3 Altogether 80,000 square miles of Burma have been cleared of Japanese. This is .nearly one-third of the entire Burmese territory, including the native States and unadministered districts. The Japanese in general are withdrawing, but not rapidly, and from time to time they make a vigorous stand. Since the Japanese were turned back out of the Kwichow Province their threat to the Burma Road has not again developed, but it might be renewed later. Meanwhile the Chinese operation under the American command has not far to go to clear the way for a junction of the Burma Road with the new road from Ledo in north-eastern Asia, which American engineers are building. Chinese forces on the Salween front have captured Wanting, thereby eliminating the last Japanese stronghold obstructing junction with the Allied troops in Burma, who are only fifteen air miles distant. The Japanese suffered heavy casualties at Wanting.
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Waikato Times, Volume 196, Issue 22547, 4 January 1945, Page 5
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