Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
We drove into a city of thc day, and will swell the army still
dead, cables the Associated Press remaining in Bonna.
man. It was as though a plague
had smitten the 38,000 inhabi-
Airfield!
tants. '"We will have- to move fast to
True many of the main build- catch them UP. They have left us
ings such as the Court House and an excellent airfield which will
the steamer wharf sheds bad been be
soon in we. At present it is
Unroofed and battered by our covered with old obstructions and
bombing, but a large proportion some very live mines.
of the town was intact-deserted "With Akyab's liberation is
and overgrown. unlocked the river system of
Western Burma and the problem
Bungalows of supplying our southward
is largely solved.
mov-
practised there.
Steel clock tower, slightly fire
damaged about its 4 faces, gave
4 different versions of the time.
B.C. Church was Intact except
for its windows.
At the steamer wharf an over-
grown notice read: "Exit saloon
passengers."
Akyab must have been a pleas-
ant spot in peacetime. Now, it
j
looks like a long neglected gar- '
den. _
.
Pagodas
.
From its hills rise its nu-
low
merous padogas,but the oddest
thing ls the absence, except for.
some well prepared positions
south, of the town, of any indi-
cation of Japanese occupation.
"It
almost, prompts me to
think," "he ados "that" deliberately
or not they, managed to preserve
a gigantic bluff for a long time.
"Militarily one fact obtrudes.
We have occupied Afcyab hat
have not killed any Japs. Its gar-
rison has lived to fight another
day, and will swell the army still