BURMA MURDERS
Former Premier Blamed ALLEGATIONS Bf POLICE (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright). (Rec. II a.m.) RANGOON, July 25. It is authoritatively stated thdt the Burma police believe the former Premier, U Saw, hired. the assassins who shot the Burmese Ministers, says Reuter’s Rangoon correspondent. A high official source stated that one of the arrested persons—a close relative of U Saw—stated : that U Saw, soon after the assassinations, sent him to the Government offices to “verify the result of the shooting.” U Saw is to appear in court as soon as charges are drawn up. Officers in charge of the two depots where arms and ammunition were obtained by persons impersonating the police, some time before Aung San’s assassination, have been relieved of their duties pending an inquiry, said a Burma Command Headquarters statement. v The statement added that any suggestion that the military authorities knew anything about the assassination is ‘completely unfounded.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 243, 26 July 1947, Page 5
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