Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1942 — Page 12

By DARRELL BERRIGAN bank, in among the bullocks, mules United Press Staff Correspondent and horses, first drinking the muddy SOMEWHERE IN BURMA, April | water, then wading and bathing as 19 (By Courier: Delayed). —A|they wait for a meal. mixed British empire division] The division fought to the Pinreached the palm-fringed Pin-|chaung, on Irrawaddy river front, chaung river today after three days, |in the Yenangyuang oil fields, to tortured by thirst, weakened by|join a relieving Chinese force. hunger, blistered by a merciless| Three days ago the Japanese sursun, of fighting through Japanese rounded the division a few hours who surrounded them. after I had reached it in the treeAs I write this dispatch, English- less hills along Smelly Smelly Water men, Scotsmen, Irishmen, Indians creek, as it is called. It was pulling and Burmese soldiers of the divi- out of Magwe, across the dry hills, gion are swarming along the river, men, mules, horses, bullocks strung

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March Across Desert

Men were dropping in the blistering dust. Someone would doctor them and they would stagger to their feet and lurch on. Men of the West Yorkshire regiment (the Prince of Wales’ own), the king’s own Yorkshire light’ infantry, the Gloucestershire regiment, the Cameronian Highlanders (Scottish rifles), the Royal Iniskilling fusiliers from England, Scotland and Ireland; Punjabs, Jats, Sinks, Rajputs, Garhwallis and Gurkhas from India and Kachins and Chins from northern Burma were in the division. This assortment of men were under a tall, gaunt English brigade commander. They already had marched 20 thirsty miles across the desert, with almost no cover, under constant” attack of enemy dive bombers. . Their transport was bogged down in the gripping quicksand.

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Attack With Mortars

The brigadier offered me some slightly whiskeyed water and said wearily: “I hope we've walked far enough from the Japs today to get a good night’s sleep. The troops haven't had one for a week. They are so

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blankets without bothering to take off anything.” : He asked me to dinner. Having learned that all he had was one can of tomato soup and one can of sausages for himself and his staff, I declined. At nightfall mortar “shells began falling from the hilltop nearby. We ran into some gullies with the shells following us. ’ The Iniskillings began crawling slowly up the hill toward the mortars. Our own mortars started pouring shells into the Japanese from somewhere north’ of us. Firing broke out behind—the Japanese had landed men from barges and gunboats in the Irrawaddy. Firing then began to left, to right, and we knew we were surrounded. The - Cameronians and Indians moved out into the fog of shell smoke and drove the Japanese off They tried in- vain to dislodge them from the road to the south. The fighting kept up all night. By morning the Japanese had been driven out of their positions to the north. Our men fought to hill 510 which

‘dominated our right.

By noon they reached they edge of Twingon village. The Japanese poured in fire from cottages but the! Irishmen and Indians kept on and. drove them at the bayonet’s point out of the village.

’ This Strange War

Our radio told us that Chinese troops had reached the Pinchaung and were waiting for us. In this strange war they had been forced to wait for us to break through, because we might have mistaken! them for Japanese. The Japanese] now are posing as Chinese, inviting British empire troops to fraternize with them, and then shooting them.

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McNutt Says Se Rotitsatio Necessary to Reach

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ST. PAUL, April 30 (U.*'P.).— Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the

war manpower commission, said last

night that men, like materials, |

war,” he suid: “we niust try to map out, in our manpower general staff, exactly vied and . When workers will be e needed.” |

| ARMY NEEDS 16,000 DOCTORS THIS YEAR

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Jarmy needs 16,000 more physicians

this year, it was disclosed today in a special announcement carried in the American Medical Association Journal. The procurement and assignment ‘service for physicians, dentists, and veterinarians. . announced that 5000

“must be redirected” to reach the 4octors were needed immediately

nation’s war production goals. | “At the beginning of 1941,” he said at a “buy-a-bomber” rally, “probably no more *than 1,500,000 workers were employed in war work, but by the end of 1942, the number may run as high as 17,500,000.” To fill war needs, he said, action must be taken to ‘“plan.and exe-: cute training programs best de- | signed to provide workers for every, essential job.’ i ‘If the man on the farm can run a lathe, if he is a tool maker, a die cutter, a carpenter, it is a waste if he stays on the farm.”

Crops Must Be Harvested

Mr. McNutt said, however, that agricultural labor sources would not be drained from farms and that a draft of labor and regimentation of workers was not the object of the manpower commission. : “America needs the production of its farms as it has never needed it before, and when one reads that in certain sections farmers are actually reducing herds because they cannot obtain the necessary farm labor, that is a situation of vital importance to the nation,” ” he said.

“There will be resuitianinte.. cruitment sufficient to plant and’

harvest America’s crops.” Mr.

and an additional 11,000 by next Deéc. 31. A streamlined recruitment plan has been devised, the announcement said, to speed enlistment of medical officers.

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Burma apparently have overwhelmed the Chinese defenders of Lashio, cutting the vital Lashio-Mandalay railroad. This might necessitate destruction of much U. S. lend-lease material destined for China. Stored in Lashio, war material awaited shipment over Burma Road

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Hand to Hand Fighting

“The Iniskillings forced them back with the bayonet,” he said to me. “We gave them everything we had and we took their mortars. We'd be all right if he had some cigarets and water.” Night closed in quickly. Twingon village burned all night. Either our shells, plopped into it constantly, or the Japanese in it had set it afire. The oil derricks were silhouetted in the glare. At 6:30 a. m. the Japanese came down on us with the bayonet. They screamed like madmen. We scrambled into a ravine as the bullets whistled by. Our guns blasted then.

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Our machine guns opened up. Our riflemen began picking them off, glad to see them in the open. The British lines held, and their tanks roared into action down the road to support the Iniskillings and the Indians. A Japanese plane soared overhead and circled, then crashed as the guns got it. The troops moved in and began to clean up snipers in oil derricks, and the tanks clanked down the road toward the bogged transport. The jeep followed and the convoy lined up behind the tanks. In it were ambulances with wounded who had endured the terrible heat for more than 48 hours. We moved 50 yards before the Japanese motars opened from new positions and the Cameronians began scrambling up the hills toward them, through a screen ‘of machine gun fire. We - learned that the Japanese had crossed the river and were. on our right. Japanese planes came Over, bomb ing, machine gunning and spotting out positions. By mid-afternoon we made the mile to a sandy dry river bed and we could see the alluring green Pinchaung half a mile away. The commander sent word to the Chinese that we were arriving and we crept ahead with the Japanese bullets nicking bits of earth out of the hillside just above us.

DIES OF INJURIES AFTER JEEP UPSETS

BEDFORD, Ind., April 30 (U. P.).

—James Heamey, 25, WPA worker, died today of injuries received when an army “jeep” overturned yesterday near Scotland, Ind. C. W. Mates, 30, Oakland, Ill, a member of the naval reserve at the Burns City naval ammunition depot, and Robert Webb, 25, Indianapolis, civilian employee at the depot, were injured in the accident. Dunn Memorial hospital officials said today the two men spent a “fairly good” night.

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