STIFFENING OF RESISTANCE
JAPANESE TROOPS IN BURMA (Rec. 12,5 a.m.) COLOMBO. July 30. “One of Bangkok’s main railway stations, at Noi. was yesterday bombed by Liberators of Air Command,” says' a communique from South-east Asia Command headquarters. “Rolling stock was derailed ana sections of the track destroyed. "Operations to clear . the enemy troops between the Mandalay-Rangoon road and the Sittang river were continued, although greater resistance was
shown by tlie enemy in several village strongpoints. A village 26 miles north of Pegu was cleared by our troops. A naval communique says: "The guns of the aircraft-carrier Ameer, operating off the east coast of the Malay Isthmus to the north of Malacca Strait, destroyed a Japanese aircraft making a suicide attack on the British East Indies Fleet. "In minesweeping operations on July 24 one of our vessels, H.M.S. Squirrel, struck a mine and was later sunk by our gunfire. , “Carrier-borne aircraft haye attacked enemy installations, airfields, troop concentrations, and shipping. ’
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24632, 31 July 1945, Page 5
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