RACING ON
SLUES NEAR GATES OF RANGOON JAPANESE IN HEADLONG RETREAT (Rec. 11.15 a.m.) BOMBAY, April 30. The Fourteenth 'Army has smashed Japanese attempts to hold it up at the Pegu railway junction, on the main Mandalay-Rangpon railway and the key to their escape way to Siam, says the Australian Associated Press special correspondent in Burma. The British and Indian troops' advance was so overpowering and speedy that the Japanese were thrown back in headlong retreat, and the Fourteenth Army has crashed down almost to the gates of Rangoon itself. Japanese troops left in Western Burma, the south oilfield region, and in the Arakan have now lost their escape way by land. Their only escape by sea is effectively blockaded by the Royal Navy. Over 300 British and American prisoners of war have been released from captivity by the Japanese commandant at Rangoon. They marched 50 miles north without food and water before receiving succour from the advancing British forces. y
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Evening Star, Issue 25472, 1 May 1945, Page 5
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