BURMESE REBELS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1931, Page 5

BURMESE REBELS

RINGLEADERS CONVICTED. [by CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] • CALCUTTA, May 9. A special tribunal,. sitting at Pyapon has sentenced fifteen Burma rebels to death and 56 more to life transportation. Th© charges were o waging war against the King, and also of conspiracy. Twenty-four were The Commissioner recommended those sentenced to transportation to mercy, as they expressed the opinion that strong intimidation had been used by the rebel leaders toward the rank and file, whose credulity and ignorance were abominably exploited. CAWNPORE RIOT INQUIRY. OVERWORKED POLICE/ DELHI, May 9. At the Cawnpore riot inquiry, Captain Rogers, Superintendent of Police, stressed the insufficiency of six hundred police with whom he was expected to cope with troubles which spread in a few hours the whole city. Complete control could not be obtained for two or three days until the arrival of reinforcements. His six hundred were expected to disperse crowds everywhere, arrest rioters, search houses fdr arms, and escort people, provide guards for the telegraphs and two post offices, relieve patrols, and rush to places from which appeals for protection were coming. The police worked themselves tOva point of' exhaustion. The majority of the force had no relief for 48 hours. Still complaints were made against the police methods.