Govt posts overrun
f-V Z Press Assn—Copyright) PHNOM PENH, April 10.
Rebel forces overran two Government outposts guarding Phnom Penh today and forced the United States to halt the airlift of food to the besieged Cambodian capital. Reporters on the front lines said that the Communist-led insurgents drove Government defenders out of a military Police post within three kilometres of Phnom Penh’s Pochentong Airport. The reporters said that the guerrillas broke through gans in the capital’s crumbling defence line to overwhelm military police at Samrongj Teav, a village just under two miles north of the airport. Initial reports said that 15 Police were killed, 20 wounded and 10 missing. The defenders left an assortjment of arms and ammunition behind when they fled.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33815, 11 April 1975, Page 9
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