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...Beloved countrymen: Day by day the Phnom-Penh front becomes increasingly intense. Evacuate quickly to avoid accidents that may be caused by our raids. Come to the Liberated Zone, where your safety will be guaranteed...
...million residents of refugee-swollen Phnom-Penh heeded this appeal last week by the clandestine radio of the Khmer Insurgents. Although artillery and rocket attacks on the Cambodian capital have already killed an estimated 340 civilians and wounded another 800 since last December, the inevitability of a rebel ground attack on the city in the near future seems far from certain. Since the current dry-season offensive began, the forces of Cambodian President Lon Nol have blunted three separate attempts by the Communist-led guerrillas to drive into the capital...
Although Insurgent troops so far have been kept out of the capital and have lost 2,000 men, they are still strong enough to maintain fierce pressure on the city. At least 74 battalions (strength: 300 men each) are deployed in the Phnom-Penh area, and they control every major highway leading into the city...
...rebel forces are supported by nearly 1,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong advisers and they possess an impressive arsenal. While Hanoi provides most of this equipment, some diplomats in Phnom-Penh suspect that the Insurgents have still another source of supply -government officials and military officers who make a quick profit by selling the guerrillas American ammunition...
...Lest Phnom-Penh's stunned residents should think that the worst was over, the Insurgents circulated leaflets warning that the shelling would continue. At week's end intelligence sources reported that Insurgent howitzers had been moved to within killing range of the capital's crowded center...