RANGOON READY TO RESIST
Will Be Held At All Costs (Rec. 5.30 p.m.) RANGOON, Feb. 25. Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, Governor of Burma, broadcasting, said that Rangoon would be held at all costs. If necessary it would become another Tobruk. A military commandant has been appointed for Rangoon and the curfew is being imposed in the Rangoon area from tonight. A communique states: No contact was made with the enemy on the southern front. British troops on the Sittang river are reorganizing after heavy fighting. There is nothing to report from the northern front. Two Japanese planes were shot down and two were probably destroyed in a raid on Rangoon today. There was slight damage and no casualties when the Japanese carried out four raids on an aerodrome north of the city.
Total enemy losses since the first raid are 122 planes destroyed, 43 probably destroyed and 42 damaged. Our losses are 12 destroyed and one damaged.
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Southland Times, Issue 24680, 27 February 1942, Page 5
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