GETTING THROUGH
JAPANESE FORMATIONS
LONDON, July 22
In Burma, United Kingdom and Indian infantrymen are fighting the remnants of the Japanese 28th Army, which are trying to escape from the Pegu Hills, and by last night they had killed nearly 500 Japanese. The total number of trapped enemy troops is probably between 8000 and 9000. A correspondent says about 5000 of them are so far taking part in the attempt to fight their way through the flooded paddy fields towards the Sittang River. The break-out front stretches along 70 miles of the Mandalay-Rangoon road south of Toungoo. A fair number of Japanese have filtered between the Allied defences along the road, and some may have crossed or have tried to cross the Sittang.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 19, 23 July 1945, Page 5
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123GETTING THROUGH Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 19, 23 July 1945, Page 5
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