POSITION IN BURMA
SITTANG LINE STILL HELD AS FAR AS KNOWN IN LONDON. ALLEGED CAPTURE OF PEGU DOUBTED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) RUGBY, February 25. The situation in Burma, as far as is known in London, is that the British forces are holding the west bank of the Sittang River. The Japanese claim to have captured Pegu on Sunday was certainly false, and up to Monday evening at least the town is believed to have been in British hands. No news has been received of any landing on the coast. The Sittang is 400 yards broad where the line runs, but the rice growing country around is flat and dry at this season.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1942, Page 4
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117POSITION IN BURMA Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1942, Page 4
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