RAPID ADVANCE IN BURMA
(Rec. 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Dec. 22. The 14th Army's rapid advance in Central Burma continues. "Fourth Corps troops," says a Smith-East Asia communique, "have occupied Kawlin on the Myitkyina-Mandalay railway. eight miles south of Wuntlio. On the Chindwin front our loading troops are 17 miles east of Wegyin on the Shwegyin-Yc-U road. On the 15th Indian Corps front naval craft heavily shelled Bathedaung on the cast bank of the Mayu River. Air activity was continued acainst widespread targets." —Official Wireless.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 22, 23 December 1944, Page 6
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