Tribune: "Japs Press Drive on India Front." The problem is how to admit a retreat from the Imphal range and the loss of Myitkyina. I imagine it's done this way:

OK, show me the map ... here! What? It doesn't matter, anywhere will do. Right, let's put it this way: "In the area of northern Burma, Japanese forces gradually withdrawing from the Hukawng sector have gained" (clever, eh?) "control of a Key Line and also the northern side of the Burma railway line west of Mogaung." If anyone can figure that out, I'll eat my hat. Leave it there. Don't argue, damn it. Now add this because sooner or later we'll have to admit it: "They" — that's we — "are now facing numerically superior enemy troops."

Now, about Myitkyina, just say that we, after staging the usual counter-attacks — successfully of course — against numerically superior enemy troops, "withdrew to a key point in the rear during the nights of August 2 and 3, after breaking through" (we'll have to admit it; they know we were encircled) "the enemy's encircling line." See? That was easy. Print it. Great job. Now about that aircraft tally....

"1,030 planes downed during July" — more than half in China. Of the total, 694 are "heavily damaged" and 17 are "probables." Japanese losses: 34 "dived on objectives" or "failed to return," and 105 were lost on the ground. Total 139 — read 'em and weep.

"Loss of four B-29s over Palembang [Sumatra], Kyushu [Japan] admitted.... Raid on Japan complete failure." We get almost a full column telling us that the damage "was so negligible that it is not worth mentioning."