AT GREAT COST
OILFIELD DESTRUCTION IN BURMA. BRITAIN’S SCORCHED EARTH POLICY. (Ey Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, April 17. i The destruction of the Yenangyaung oilfields represents one of the biggest acts of scorched earth Britain has carried out so far in this war. The Yenangyaung oilfields are principally worked by the British-Burma Oil Company. The output of the Yenangyaung field has never been disclosed, but Burma’s pre-war crude oil production was a million tons yearly.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1942, Page 4
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80AT GREAT COST Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1942, Page 4
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