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Into Our Hands. The British Fourteenth Army had had orders to engage the main enemy strength in western Burma. (It did not attack, and Lord Louis did not say why.) The Japs "fortunately played into our hands," he said, by launching the invasion of Manipur. That cost the enemy 22,000 dead. This week the British were well over the border into Burma, the disease-ridden Japs in headlong flight...
Their major offensive against India's Manipur state had been dangerous, and it had failed. They had been unable to capture the supply depots of Imphal and Kohima, they had been unable to cut the Bengal-Assam railway. Their offensive had fallen back before strong British counterattacks, would probably be washed out completely by the coming rains...
Said the Admiral: the Japanese advance into Manipur 1) had not dislocated the Allied strategy schedule in Burma-India, 2) had not delayed Stilwell, probably helped him, 3) did not hamper air supply to the Raiders...
...Admiral was also asked about the effect of the Manipur fighting on air delivery of supplies "over the Hump" to China and Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, neither question nor answer came through the rigid British censorship. From outside India the conclusion seemed to be that, no matter how successfully the Manipur battle had been fought, both the Chinese Army and Chennault had suffered from the North Burma campaign...
...past six weeks Manipur and North Burma have siphoned off supplies urgently needed for Chennault's China bases...