21.   Bamiyan residents, all of them Shiite Muslims, say the city and many neighboring villages are deserted with people fleeing advancing Taliban troops.

22.   Bild quoted Breuer as saying the files on Auschwitz had been moved to Hanover for safekeeping towards the end of the war, because of advancing Soviet troops.

23.   Despite these credentials, journalists have been fired on several times by the advancing Russian troops.

24.   Forces loyal to the Chechnya government fired rockets on the advancing troops, killing two and wounding several, Interfax reported, citing an unnamed Russian government spokesman.

25.   He said advancing troops found them and started firing at the guerrillas.

26.   He said advancing troops found them and started firing.

27.   In China, U.S. bomber crews abandon Laohokow airfield to avoid advancing Japanese troops.

28.   In many cases, the South Vietnamese fled two to three days before the advancing communist troops arrived.

29.   It claimed that civilians beat six rebels to death Monday when the guerrillas tried to force them to run from the advancing troops.

30.   It said they were blowing up containers of poisonous cholorine cholrine and pouring prussic acid in the path of advancing Russian troops.