TITLE: The Advance to Mawlu

DESCRIPTION: It is 75 miles from Hopin to Mawlu, fourteen days journey through a monsoon-swept jungle, over Japanese road blocks, through little devastates villages where every possible track is mined, along the jagged rocks of a river bed or thigh deep in oozing clammy clay. Men of the Royal Scots Fusiliers and British and Chinese artillery swept a roadway through the jungle and captured Mawlu to make another 75 miles of the road to Tokyo safe for the allied advance. Photo shows: Fusilier E. Thompson (left) of 48 Queensgate Rd, Ramsgate, Kent and Fusilier V. Robertson, of 45, Black friars, Edinburgh, both of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, manning forward positions on the road to Mawlu