PROGRESS ON ALL SECTORS
INDIANS CLEAR BRIDGEHEAD VILLAGE (Rec. 10.25 a.m.) RUGBY, Feb. 28. A Burma communique reports that the Fourteenth Army maintained progress on all sectors in Central Burma. After 56 hours of continuous fighting the Twentieth Indian Division cleared the village of Talingon, in the Myinmu bridgehead, of the enemy. Over 500 Japanese dead were counted in this sector. The Chinese cut the NamtuHsipaw road yesterday, north of Namsan. (Hsipaw is on the Lashio-Man-dalay railway, 40 miles south-west of Lashio.) One Allied aircraft is missing from attacks on the railway and objectives in central and southern Burma.
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Evening Star, Issue 25422, 1 March 1945, Page 5
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