FIGHTING IN CAMBODIA
Insurgents hold fast (N.Z.PA.-Reuter■—Copyright > ’ PHNOM PENH. Jan. 14. Cambodian Government i troops report little progress! during the week-end in their. drives to oust insurgent' forces from positions north and west of Phnom Penh, in spite of air attacks and artillery barrages. The Communist-led insurgents yesterday fired two more Soviet-made 122 mm rockets into the capital, one of them landing about 100 yards from the Soviet Union Embassy and wounding 11 people, including a Frenchman at the French Embassy. The rockets, the latest of a series in the last three weeks which has killed or injured more than 100 people, were fired from a position north-west of the city, where Government forces have ‘ been engaged in their most intensive sweep since the dry season began two months ago.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33433, 15 January 1974, Page 13
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