RIOTING IN RANGOON.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19941, 30 May 1930, Page 15

RIOTING IN RANGOON.

FEROCIOUS NATURE EMPHASISED. INDIANS AND BURMANS IN CONFLICT. (uwiraß ritEss associmios—bi uwwmo TBUSOKATH—COrXBIGHT.) (Received May 29th, 10.15 p.m.) DELHI, May 29. Later accounts emphasise the unbelievable ferocity of the Rangoon mobs, Indians combining against the Burmans, who retaliated by looting Indian shops and killing Indian women and children. Finally the Cameron Highlanders and the police established a cordon round the disordered area. The casualties are estimated at 52 doad and 1000 injured, of whom 80 are not expected to survive. DELHI, May 29. Although the situation has improved in Rangoon, isolated assaults continue. Four thousand Indians and their families have been removed for safety from the Burmese quarter of *-uo city. A gang of Burmans, threatening to attack Indians yesterday, refused to lay down their arms when challenged »y the police, who fired, killing 10. Later tho Indians combined against tho Burmans. The latter thereupon started looting Ind an shops and massacring women and children. The Indians retaliated by massacring Burmese families in other parts of the city. The Burmans then set fire to the Indian quarters, killing the occupants as they ran from the blazing builaings.