BURMESE REBELLION

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1931, Page 7

BURMESE REBELLION

POLICE PARTY’S HEAVY LOSS [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] DELHI, May 6. A large party of Burma rebels attacked a detachment of the police near Prome, and it is feared that District Superintendent of Police, Austin, several officers, and men were killed. The survivors reached the police headquarters and stated that they were surrounded, and had no time to nick up their arms. ‘ A Burman officer, hearing the news, set out With a large party of police, and encountered sixty rebels. The police killed seven and wounded many. BRITISH CLOTH BOYCOTT. (Reed. May 7, 9 a.m.) DELHI, May 6. Manchester’s protest against the boycott of British cotton goods, and the request for a reduction of the Indian import duties on textiles, is gleefully splashed by the Nationalist papers under headings, “Manchester’s Wail.” Coincidentally, the picketing, which ceased since the Irwin-Gandhi agreement, recommenced at the Calcutta bazaars. ~ Headed by a local Congress leader, the pickets visited the shops, stood with folded hands, exhorting merchants and customers to have nothing to do with foreign cloth. A police officer accompanied the procession. No action was taken, the pickets carefully explaining that they were acting wi|thin the agreement, which sanctioned the boycott and peaceful picketing- „