BURMESE TOWNS THREATENED
CHINESE COMMUNISTS ON BORDER DEFENCE MEASURES TAKEN (Bee. 11 p.m.) RANGOON, May 21. Four thousand Chinese Communists, who seized Paoshan and Tengchung, in the Yunnan province, are massing on the Burmese border, according to eye-witness reports reaching Rangoon. The reports say they are preparing to attack the Burmese border town of Sadon (Fort Harrison) in the Myitkyina district. Government officials in Rangoon say the reports are substantially correct, but they think the main threat is to the town of Bhamo, 170 miles northwest of Mandalay, on the Shewelhi river, where the Chinese border is less than 10 miles away. The officials said Burma had taken adequate defence measures. The English language newspaper, ‘Nation,” to-day urged the Burmese Government to invoke foreign aid to protect Burma’s north-eastern frontier against the Chinese Communists.
Bomb Found on Railway.—Police at Vicenza found a large bomb on the main Milan-Venice railway line this morning and removed it five minutes before an express train was due.— Rome, May 21.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25810, 23 May 1949, Page 7
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