KHMER REPUBLIC: GOVERNMENT FORCES CONTINUE THEIR DRIVE AGAINST COMMUNIST-LED INSURGENTS ENTHRENCHED SOUTH WEST OF PHNOM PENH.

Record ID: 646511

  • Title: KHMER REPUBLIC: GOVERNMENT FORCES CONTINUE THEIR DRIVE AGAINST COMMUNIST-LED INSURGENTS ENTHRENCHED SOUTH WEST OF PHNOM PENH.
  • Date: 8th February 1974
  • Summary: 1. GV Armoured car moves into position (2 shots) 0.14 2. LV armoured car fires 0.18 3. SV & LV shell loaded into gun and fired 0.22 4. LV & SV another two armoured cars move into position (2 shots) 0.35 5. GV armoured vehicles in position 0.40 6. GV guns fired (2 shots) 0.45 7. LV artillery shells exploding in front of troops (2 shots) 0.56 8. SCU soldiers watch bombs explode 1.00 9. GV smoke thining out 1.01 10. SV injured soldier attended 1.07 11. LV more shells exploding as soldiers watch 1.10 12. SV soldiers fires at enemy position 1.20 13. CU soldier aiming rifle and firing 1.31 14. SV soldiers firing at enemy position PAN TO TARGET AREA 1.50 Initials GM/2217 GM/2247 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd February 1974 12:00
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  • Location: BA KOU AREA: ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH WEST OF PHNOM PENH: KHMER REPUBLIC:
  • Country: Cambodia
  • Reuters ID: LVABQG9NNC3U56L5S5SN7R1WVN0F
  • Story Text: Communist-led insurgents have been holding grimly to their positions south-west of the Khmer Republic capital, Phnom Penh.

    The insurgents are entrenched as close as seven miles (11 kilometers) from the centre of Phnom Penh. In the Ba Kou area, they have given little ground in the face of an armoured drive by Government forces.

    By Thursday (7 February) the Government forces had advanced only 400 meters (yards) after ten days of fighting. The front lines were only about 100 metres (yards) apart.

    Government infantry and armored personnel carriers used cannon fire and gun-launched grenades against the insurgents, who have been trying to protect captured artillery, positioned about a mile (about 1.5 kilometers) behind their lines.

    The insurgents have been returning fire with grenades and cannon shells.

    Phnom Penh is now encircled by a defence ring with Government forces trying to check the insurgent's drive against the capital. However, the insurgents have kept up a rocket attack on the city, sometimes from positions within the defence ring.
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