BURMA FRONT

Grey River Argus, 11 May 1945, Page 5

BURMA FRONT

ADVANCE BY ALLIES LONDON, May 9. The Fourteenth Army troops, advancing south of Prome, reached a point on the railway ninety-six miles from Rangoon, states a South East. Asia command comniunique. Our forces, twenty-two miles south south east of Thayetmo, trapped and sank boats loaded with Japanese attempting to escape eastward along the Irrawaddy. East of Pegu, fifty-one miles northeast of Rangoon, we made further slight advances against stiff opposition. Allied heavy bombers yesterday attacked Japanese troop concentrations in Martaban, causing fires and explosions in the target al Oii the Fourteenth Army front troops advancing south from Pegu have linked up with the column from Rangoon at Hlegu, twenty-seven miles north of the port. Further advances have been made by. our troops advancing south from Prome. East of Thazi, enemy resistance on a road running east in the Shan Hills has weakened. On the Eighty-Second (West African) Division front, our troops have advanced seventeen miles south along the coastal road from Taungup. (Rec. 12.30) LONDON, May 10. Troops operating in the Arakan Hills linked up with forces westward of the Irrawaddy, states a South-east Asia Command communique. Our troops are advancing down the railway from Prome, and are in contact with the enemy at a point 75 miles from Rangoon. We captured, after stiff opposition, a village on the main Japanese escape route from the Irrawaddy belta area, 20 miles north-east of Pegu. _ Allied planes attacked Japanese positions on the escape road from Thazi to Siam.