CIVIL WAR IN BURMA
GOVERNMENT FORCES RETAKE THAYETMYO ADVANCE ON PROME CONTINUES (N2 .P A.—Reuter—Copyright) (Rec. 7 pjn.) RANGOON, August 30. “Burmese Government forces captured Thayetmyo, on the Irrawaddy river, after a sharp fight with the remnants of the rebel 16th Battalion of the Burma Rifles,” says the correspondent of the British United Press. “The Government forces are continuing from north and south on Prome. which is on the opposite bank of the river.” An official communique announced that the Burmese Navy attacked Communist groups hiding in the Irrawaddy rice delta near Bassein and Myaungmya, and wiped out Communist camps along the river bank. The communique said that 50 insurgents attacked a military outpost at Dalia, but were repulsed. Pro-Government sources said that crack Kachin troops from north-west Burma, who were specially flown to Rangoon earlier in August, would be transferred to the offensive against Prome in an attempt to smash the administration which the Communists were said to have established there.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25588, 1 September 1948, Page 5
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