Word: bilin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rivers which barred their advance. They had crossed the Salween. They put bicycle scouts in Burmese dress, sent them worming ahead to find weak spots. Small parties of soldiers followed the scouts, stabbed here & there, and called in stronger forces when a foothold was seized. Thus they crossed the Bilin, and moved slowly on toward Rangoon's last important river barrier, the Sittang. The same advance carried them nearer & nearer to the one railway which connects Rangoon with Lashio, at the foot of the Burma Road...
...settled briskly to his task. This week the British conceded that renewed enemy pressure had forced Imperial forces back 30 miles nearer to Rangoon. The Allied line halted, reformed on the Bilin River's west bank. Rangoon's last stand seemed imminent...
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