DRIVE ON PROME TO OUST COMMUNISTS
(9.45 a.m.) RANGOON, Aug. 30. Pro-Government sources said crack Kachin troops from North-west Burma who were specially flown to Rangoon earlier in August, are being transferred to the offensive against Prome in an attempt to smash the administration the Communists arc said to have established there.
Government troops have reached a point 36 miles south of Prome. A later message states that Government forces captured Theyetmyo after a sharp fight with the remnants of the rebel Sixteenth Battalion, Burma Rifles, says the British United Press correspondent. Government forces are continuing to advance and are converging from the north and south on Prome. which is on the opposite bank of the river. An official communique announced that the Burmese Navy attacked Communist groups hiding in the Irrawaddy rice delta near Bassein and Myaungmya and wiped out Communist camps along the river bank.
The communique said that 50 insurgents attacked a military outpost at Dalla but were repulsed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22730, 31 August 1948, Page 5
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