ENEMY WITHDRAWAL IN BURMA
LONDON, July 19. “The Japanese are still withdrawing in their Sittang bridgehead northwards towards Myitkyo,” says a correspondent in Rangoon. “Gurkhas made two Unsuccessful attempts, with the aid of an air strike, to capture a village South-east of Myitkyo. , , “July 18 will long be remembered by our troops in south Burma. It provided the worst deluge of this monsoon. It rained hard for 18 hours. In hone of the three monsoons we have known have such abnormal conditions been experienced, and I have just returned from a tour of the war district wWre the whole countryside looks as if it had been overwhelmed by the bursting of a giant dam.”
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24624, 21 July 1945, Page 7
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