Show I ALLIES S CRIPPLE RIPPLE C-RIPPLE CRIPPLEr r BURMA TRAFFIC i NEW DELHI Jan 6 WV- WV United States and Royal Air Force Foree flying hying crews are crippling some tome river and rail transport facUlties facilities used t to transport Japanese troop and supplies in Burma ques reported Wednesday ty While United States bombers raided railroad yards in Mandalay MandlaY Monday starting fl fire tha that could be seen for tor or 70 miles mUes other crews attacked a ton n vessel vette moving moving ing ing- ingup up the river iyer toward I Rangoon Thick smoke billowed from the hip after two direct bomb hits and three three- near mUsee ml Heavy bombers from the Tenth air force mil made the attacks attack on the ship thip and a 8 concentration of freight cars and other railroad equipment in n the Mandalay railroad yards said Jilt Hit Rail nan Equipment The same sam day railroad installations at Naba Junction also in Sn Burma urma were attacked by medium bombers and the said aid saida aidA a high bigi per percentage of hits hit were claimed among a concentration of rolling stock including a tive A small railroad bridge was wa report reported d destroyed On January 2 Z medium U U. S S. S bombers bomber scored seven direct hits hitson hitson hitson on runways runway o of the Japanese air airbase base bas at CO 50 O mUte miles west of ot Mandalay and many others inthe in inthe inthe the airfields dispersal area The attack ta by bombers of the Tenth U. U S s. s army anny air force on k b railroad communications coincided I with lith R RAF A F assaults on river dver and f coastal shipping in Sn Burma rang rang- ing from the north coast do down to Pagoda point at the south ern em tip of ot Burma a a. BrUsh British com corn I said The ships attacked were those thOle used by the Japanese f to transport troops and supplies f 60 CO Vessels resel Bombed More than 60 small vessels of various types were bombed or ma chine gunned usually from a low lowI I t level a said lei Although detailed results c could not always 1 be e e observed it I is f known that many of ot them were I severely damaged and that out ut o ol oli i several heavily laden sampans attacked attacked at- at t- t tacked oft off island south of at least three were sunk k the said British bombers attacked Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese positions in the area west Welt of Monday and the tame came night other formations attacked at tacked the railway frei freight ht yards at Mandalay where fires were started The bombers bomber returned to Mandalay Tuesday and scored hits on the main lines line of a railway junction it was reported No We British British Brit Brit- ish planes were lost in these operations op op- operations op- op I it was said |