POLICE AMBUSHED
BRITISH OFFICERS' FAi E
INCIDENT IN BURMA
(Received 7th May, 11 a.m.)
D.ELHI, 6th May
A large party of Burma . rebels attacked a detachment of police near Prome, and it is feared, fhat the District Superintendent of -Police, Mr. Austin, and several officccrs anfl - men were killed. Three survivors, . who reached the police headquarters, stated that they wero surrounded and had no time to pick up their arms. A Burman officer, hearing the news, sot out with a large party of police, encountered sixty rebels, killed seven, and wounded many. ■ ; ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 11
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