SOUTH-WEST OF PEGU
VILLAGES REPORTED CLEAR Rec. 9 a.m. LONDON, June 25. A South-cast Asia Command communique says: 'One of our patrols attacked enemy positions approximately 40 miles south-east of Prome and killed 12 Japanese. "Patrols report that five villages in the area 35 miles south-west of Pegu are clear of enemy patrols. "Heavy bombers, in a low-ley..el attack, destroyed three spans of the main bridge over the Manchanaburi on "the Burma-Slam railway, 80 miles west of Bangkok." NO SER4OUS STAND Hec. 11a.m. RUGBY, June 25. British Indian troops pursuing the Japanese retreating eastward along the Toungoo-Mawchi road have met no serious opposition, since the Japanese defences collapsed at Milestone 20 a few days ago, writes a Burma correspondent. The Japanese in this area appear to be in short supply. One Indian patrol discovered a party of Japanese attempting to salvage foodstuffs which Hsd been dropped wide in the jungle, but the party made off 1 when it was mortared. Further north; on the Kalaw/a road, along which the Japanese are also trying to escape, Allied forces are nearly at Heho, where there are several airfields. —8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 149, 26 June 1945, Page 5
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