BURMESE REBELS ON THE OFFENSIVE

Grey River Argus, 19 February 1949, Page 3

BURMESE REBELS ON THE OFFENSIVE

RANGOON, Feb. 16

It is officially announced that wide spread rebel activity has forced- the ‘•”’--mese Government to suspend telegraph traffic throughout the country except in the south-east -'^nsta l a’’ea rr, enassni’in‘' Only the three towns of Moulmein, Tavoy, and M'n’-ei -mamtmn telegraphic communip„A:„r| Rangnnn. The Burmese Government claim-vi that its troops in an all-night bat Mo repulsed combined attempts by “Karen and Communist rebels” to sNz? the Irawaddy delta towns of Kvai-klat and Dedave. 40 miles southwest of Rangoon.