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North of Rangoon the advance was two-pronged. Moving along the rail line to Mandalay and the Burma Road's stump, one army approached the black ruins of Toungoo. Another went forward along a rail spur and highway toward Prome (home of one of Kipling's famed Ladies), an unhealthy town of 30,000 in a bowl of pagoda-topped hills. Beyond Prome were the oil fields of Yenahgyaung. The British were tired. The somber phrase, "delaying actions," popped up in dispatches day after day. One day there was action near Nyaunglebin, south of Toungoo; next...
There was little change in Burma, where the Japs appeared to be re-grouping their forces preparatory to advances in force on Mandalay and Prome...
Besides his work as editor of the different magazines. Dr. More has also written several book, among them a life of Benjamin Franklin, and a history of the religion of Plato. He has also translated many Greek works, notably "Prome these Bound" and the "Judgment of Socrates...