New city falls
(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) PHNOM PENH, Feb. 26.
Rebel troops have captured Cambodia’s former Royal capital of Oudong in six days of fierce fighting, smashing a new link in the crumbling defence line around besieged Phnom Penh.
Military sources said Government troops abandoned Oudong, 18 miles north-west of Phnom Penh, yesterday, despite orders to hold the war-tom city at all costs.
The sources said that Colonel Hang Yiv, Governor of Oudong Province, died at his command post in the battered city, which was levelled in fighting between Government and guerrilla forces last year.
The sources said that the bloodied defenders ' of Oudong fell back to Long Vek, a town along the Tonle Sap River, 21 miles north-west of Phnom Penh.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33779, 27 February 1975, Page 17
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