PAUSE ON FRONT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1942, Page 5

PAUSE ON FRONT

HOPES RISE IN LONDON

> (Rec. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Feb. 26. Reports of widespread fires in Rangoon may conceivably be true, it is thought in informed circles in London, since it is known that the chief city of lower Burma has, been a target in many Japanese air raids. Reports of the evacuation of Rangoon, however, are liable to be. misleading. The evacuation of some civilians and others has been •in progress for some time, but there is no evacuation. taking place in a military sense. • Meanwhile there has-'evidently been a pause in the fighting on this front and it may be hoped that the invaders have met with resistance of such a nature as to force them to reorganise in some measure. JAPANESE NOT IN PEGU. There is nothing to indicate that the Japanese have occupied Pegu—in fact they have ceased to claim the town — nor that communication with Rangoon has bpen cut off. There are indications of particularly flm work by some battalions of the defending troops, including a battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and a battalion of Baluchis, but the full reports have not yet been received.—B.O.W.