RAILWAY BOMBED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 163, 12 July 1945, Page 5

RAILWAY BOMBED

Vital Link From Bangkok For Japs In Burma MANY INSTALLATIONS HIT NZ.P.A. and British Wireless Rec. 11 a.m. RUGBY, July 11. The Bangkok railway, which is a vital distribution centre of supplies to the Japanese forces left to fight a rearguard action in Burma, rocked for an hour on Tuesday under the bombs of Liberators of Eastern Air Command, says the Air Ministry. Railway repair sheds and warehouses were well hit, and workshops to the south were roofless and blazing. Many other buildings were destroyed. . „ The Japanese in Southern Burma are still launching attacks in their campaign to free their troops trapped west of the railway, line from Man-, dalay to Rangoon. East of Toungoo two Japanese attacks met with a heavy Allied--mortar barrage, which is believed to have inflicted heavy casualties oh the enemy. About 100 miles to the south, where the Japanese are making strong efforts to reach the RangoonMandalay .railway, they havei extended their area west of the Sittang to include the village terminus of the big Sittang Canal, which the Allied forces were' rising as a line of communicatidn. This area is 80 miles from Rangoon.