Henderson Daily Dispatch

Nips Suffer
Heavy Loss
From Allies
Glider Troops Hit
Hard Blows at Japs
In Eastern India

London, Ceylon, April 17.-
(AP)-Very heavy casualties have been inflicted on the enemy and important positions captured north of Imphal in counter operations against the Japanese invasion of India. Admiral Mountbatten announced today in a communique issued from his new operational headquarters here.

The British also improved their position in the Imphal beyond the ten mile rice paddy belt protecting the vital Allied storehouse and supply base.

Allied glider-borne forces have been set down sixty miles northwest of Mandalay in a deep southward penetration of Japanese-held territory in Burma, putting these adventurous troops in a position to snap enemy supply lines to the north, feeding the invaders in eastern India.

This development in the battle of Burma was announced yesterday shortly after Admiral Mountbatten had transferred his Southeast Asia command headquarters from New Delhi to Kandy, location that gives him a direct contact with the Allied naval forces operating in Indian waters.

The presence of the British-Indian glider force, organized by the late Major General Wingate northwest of Mandalay, was revealed in a communique announcing that air commando medium bombers had struck at Yeu and Shwebo "in support of ground positions."

Shwebo stands 60 miles from Mandalay on the Myitkyina-Mandalay railway, the channel on which the Japanese largely depend for sending supplies to all their operations in the north. Yeu, a river port and air base, is 70 miles from Mandalay.

Establishment of these positions represented a plunge some 100 miles deeper into enemy territory.

In offensive operations to the north, Allied forces have made "satisfactory progress" in a campaign to drive the Japanese from the 35 mile road from Kohima to Dimapur, a route linking up with the Allied Bengal-Assam railroad, the communique said.