FIGHTING IN BURMA
NOT HALTED BY FALL OF RANGOON RETIREMENT TO THE NORTH ASSUMED. LACK OF NEWS FROM PEGU AREA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, March 9. It is announced in London that the Secretary of [State for Burma 6 has been informed by the Governor that civilian officials and business houses were evacuated from Rangoon some days before the final demolitions were carried out. The withdrawal from Rangoon, which presumably has taken place in a northerly direction, in no way means that fighting has been discontinued. |
No further details of the fighting in the Pegu area, some 60 miles northeast of Rangoon, have reached London, and the position there at the moment is not known. DEAD CITY FIRES STARTED IN RANGOON BY SABOTEURS. PUBLIC SERVICES WORK TO THE LAST. (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, March 9. The British United Press Mandalay correspondent quotes refugees as stating that Rangoon is a dead city. Two districts were set on fire by saboteurs. Debris and dead dogs littered the streets, but communications, power and the radio worked until the last.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1942, Page 4
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