The Gazette

…raw fighting towards Imphal. 69.Early in April, we were forced to evacuate Kanglatongbi, astride the Dimapur road, about 15 miles north of Imphal, and thus lost the use of our lines of communication between t…

… had hard fighting before it was able to break through the defences which the enemy held astride the Dimapur—Kohima road and …

…esee much improvement in the situation until more pipelines have been finished. From our railhead at Dimapur, a long road line of communication leads up to. and beyond, Imphal. Before the Japanese advance in …

…virgin jungle, under the most adverse climatic and weather conditions. This base at Manipur Road, or Dimapur as it is sometimes called, had to …

…sible in the next dry season. (ii) Chindwin. First Priority. Re-establish communications on the road Dimapur - Kohima - Imphal not later than mid-July. Second Priority. Clear Japanese forces from the area Dim…

…arrived, wassuccessfully co-ordinated.Lily Gertrude, Mrs. Tunstall, Organiser,European Refugee Camp, Dimapur, Assam.Mrs. Tunstall was the first lady helper toarrive at Dimapur where she organised andran the E…

… be measured by the fact that in traversing the tortuous line of communication from Calcutta through Dimapur and Imphal to central Burma, mechanical transport vehicles had expended the major part of their use…

…heads were at Chittagong (with short extensions to Dohazari and to the north for the Arakan coast) ; Dimapur (Manipur Road), railhead for Fourteenth Army; and Ledo and Chabua for Northern Combat Area Command …

… Command, and the 22nd June, 1944, the date on which our lines of. communication from Manipur Road ( Dimapur) to Imphal were reopened, after the defeat of the Japanese forces at Kohima. By this date, also, th…

…nst the oilfield at Tinsukia via theHukawng Valley, and with another force tocapture Imphal and then Dimapur, in orderto cut off any Allied Troops in the Tinsukiaarea and to occupy Northern Assam. AJapanese d…