KAREN STATE PROCLAIMED
AREA IN CENTRAL BURMA _ , RANGOON, May 20. The Karen insurgents have proclaimed a Karen State in Central Burma. Newspaper reports seated that .the Karens had issued a printed proclamation from their headquarters in Nyaunglebin, declaring the area between Daiko and Toungoo, a Karen State. Daiko is 78 miles north of Rangoon and Toungoo is 85 miles further north. The proclamation called on all political leaders in the area to report immediately to the Karen authorities under pain of severe punishment. The rebels in Central Burma' to-day demanded and received about £23,00b as “protection money” from the Brit-ish-owned Burma Oil Company. The People’s Volunteer Organisation is demanding a further £90,000 a month as royalty to the rebel Government. The company’s properties lie in the area of the rebel “State.”
Commonwealth Agreement Approved.—The All India Congress Committee overwhelmingly approved a resolution accepting the agreement reached at the Commonw’calth Prime Ministers’ Conference enabling India to continue Commonwealth membership after she becomes a republic.— New Delhi, May 21.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25810, 23 May 1949, Page 7
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