ENEMY REMAINS QUIET
LONDON, February 17. THe Rangoon communique reports no change in the situation in Burma along the river front .which runs upstream and then turns north-east to a point on the Salween River.
Our withdrawal was carried out under the protection of rearguards and without interference. It appears that this will leave the Japanese within 55 miles of Pegu on the railway from Rangoon to Lashio, the railhead from which supplies travel 1500 miles over th^ Burma Road to Chungking.
Reuter reports from Batavia say that yesterday flames jfcrom the burning oil at Pelembang, in Sumatra, were still visible over 100 miles away. The value of the equipment and stocks destroyed to keep them out of Japanese hands is said to have been over £50,000,000 sterling.- ,
It is understood in this area the destruction was as thorough as at the oilfields at Balik Papan, in Borneo. At Balik Papan, even the geological formations were blasted Mn such a way that the oil flowed elsewhere underground.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1942, Page 5
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