The British fingers which have been trying to claw into the western flank of Burma slipped a little.
Reinforced Japanese troops switched last week from defense to attack. Three divisions of Japs, by their usual method of wily infiltration, moved north through Burma's matted jungle, over Burma's ragged ridges. British troops fell back up the Mayu River. In a parallel retreat, Indian troops withdrew along the Kaladan River, hurriedly cut across the Mayu Peninsula to avoid encirclement.
At week's end the British stiffened up. British naval units in the Bay of Bengal helped...
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