LULL IN BURMA
IRRAWADDY DELTA LEFT TO ENEMY NEW BRITISH POSITIONS. BOMBING RAID ON MOULMEIN. LONDON, March 11. In Burma there is a temporary lull in military operations. A communique from General Wavell’s headquarters at New Delhi states that there is no fresh news of the fighting in Central Burma since yesterday. An agency correspondent in Mandalay states that the British forces have taken up new positions in the southern area of Central Burma and the right flank which rested on Rangoon has now swung to the north, leaving the whole of the Irrawaddy Delta to the enemy. In the raid on Moulmein on JVlonday sticks of bombs fell on oil storage tanks and grounded aircraft.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1942, Page 3
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