LITTLE ACTIVITY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 171, 21 July 1945, Page 5

LITTLE ACTIVITY

Sittang River Front In Burma TOLL OF JAP STRAGGLERS Eec. 10.30 a.m. COLOMBO, July 20. There is little activity to report from the lower Sittang River front where the Japanese still hold the majority of villages on the west ba ?n' this area patriot .Burmese forces have been assisting our troops. One party of them killed a number of Japanese who were endeavouring to cross the Sittang near Nyaungkashe, 25 nTl mi _ Ies _ ec e t^n north-east of Pegu. On auction of the main Mandalay-Rangqon road between Toungoo and Pegu our forces are daily taking toll of Japanese' stragglers attempting to make their way eastwards towards the ciittane . On the loungouMaVchi ?oal' Gurkhas, following up strike on Japanese positions east of Paletwa, 17 Toungoo, were held up by enemy fire. . .