KHMER REPUBLIC: NEW RECRUITS ARE DRILLED AND MONKS GIVE BLOOD FOR WAR EFFORT AS COMMUNISTS INCREASE SHELLING OF PHNOM PENH.

Record ID: 640522

  • Title: KHMER REPUBLIC: NEW RECRUITS ARE DRILLED AND MONKS GIVE BLOOD FOR WAR EFFORT AS COMMUNISTS INCREASE SHELLING OF PHNOM PENH.
  • Date: 5th February 1974
  • Summary: 1. GV Crowd of new recruits forming up 0.08 2. CU Commanding efficer shouting instructions Pull Back to SV new recruits 0.19 3. SV Commander moving around and giving orders to recruits (some female) doing exercises 0.30 4. GV Recruits doing press ups 0.42 5. GV Uniformed recruits doing press ups and at attnetion 0.54 6. GV Commander shouting at new recruits to get right spacing 0.58 7. GV PAN Trained recruits march off (including girls) 1.18 8. GV exterier temple 1.25 9. SV Monks waiting 1.30 10. SV Monk on bed giving blood 1.33 11. SV Beds with or???erlies 1.39 12. CU Dec???or disconnecting pipe and taking away bottle of blood 1.52 13. SV Doctor and assistant at table with bottle of blood 2.02 14. SV Monks at table eating 2.08 15. GV pull back exterior temple 2.16 Initials GM/2140 GM/2233 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th February 1974 12:00
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  • Location: PHNOM PENH, KHMER REPUBLIC
  • Country: Cambodia
  • Reuters ID: LVAEZGY33BNUR32418IUXRIHR339
  • Story Text: As Communist troops step up their shelling of the khmer capital of Phnom Ponh, young people in the city - many of them without uniforms - are receiving military training. Buddhist monks who cannot fight have been giving blood.

    The communist insurgents have been using captured American artillery to shell the city - especially its southern edge and the airport area. Over 300 people have been killed since the shelling started last December, and the death tell has been particularly hoavy in the last two weeks. The communists have appealed to people by radio to leave the city.

    The Khmer government recently launched several recruiting drives. In October all men between the ages of 18 and 25 were ordered to report for a 'certain period' of military service. Recruiting has reached such a pitch of urgency that many of the recruits do not appear to have uniforms.

    The strength of the khmer army is officially put at 200,000 but outside experts say that a quarter of these are phantom soldiers whose pay goes to army officers.

    Buddhist Monks, who previously had not done much more than bless new recruits are now giving their blood for the war effort.
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