BIG BOUND IN TWO DAYS
RUGBY, April 29. A South-east Asia communique states that troops reached the sixty-second milestone after an advance of 56 miles in 24 hours. Powerful armoured spearheads, followed by British and Indian infantry, are moving south-west along the axis of the main trunk road and railway. Guerrillas are operating on the flank and ahead of the forces, materially assisting the advance. A Burma correspondent says that our troops have got the Japanese on the run and are making an all-out effort to get to Rangoon before the monsoons, which start in the middle of May. The 14th Army's lightning drive to the timber town of Toungoo and beyond into Lower Burma has become the fastest, most exhilarating advance yet made by General Slim's British and Indian troops, writes another correspondent. In ten days we have covered more than 150 miles.
Every day fresh news comes of the growth of the Burmese rebellion against their self-styled "liberators." —
8.0.W
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 100, 30 April 1945, Page 6
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