NOT YET SURRENDERED
JAPANESE IN BURMA ALLIED PLANES FIRED ON (Rec. 1.30 p.m.) RANGOON, Aug. 20. Artillery is being used in Burma to tell the Japanese about the Emperor’s orders. Instead of firing shells, the guns are firing tightly-packed wads of leaflets. * A Burmese canoe filled with leaflets, and containing dummy figures stuffed with leaflets was pushed off down the Pegu-Siitang Canal towards the Japanese lines..
There is no sign of surrender, and planes tyhich flew over Moulmein were again fired on.
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Evening Star, Issue 25567, 21 August 1945, Page 6
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82NOT YET SURRENDERED Evening Star, Issue 25567, 21 August 1945, Page 6
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