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Show JAPS SURPRISED IN BURMA WILL NOT CHANGE WAR Seizure of a Japanese air base near Myitkylna by American and Chinese jungle fighters may have Important results In connection with the reopening of an overland route into China, but we find It difficult to believe the suggestion that it "may change the entire complexion of the war in. Burma." While the spectacular march of General Merrill's men took the Japanese by surprise and repre-s repre-s e n t s a distinctive military achievement, Myitkyina is some distance northwest of the Burma Road and in the Northernmost fringe of the Japanese zone. About the most that we can expect ex-pect from the seizure of the city, now under attack, is some acceleration acceler-ation in the opening of an overland over-land highway into China. In addition, addi-tion, it will give us a rail head on the railway leading southward to Mandalay and Rangoon. |