LATE NEWS BRITAIN STILL HAS RESPONSIBILITY FOR ORDER IN BURMA
(P«e. 3 n.m.) LONDON, July 21. Mr Attlee said in the House of Commons that the responsibility for maintaining internal security in Burma rested with the Governor and troops available for that purpose. They were under British command and under the .’Governor’s control. He added that Burma was not yet a Dominion Government and therefore Britain had the responsibility for law and order. Every step was being taken to' provide for reinforcements if needed, and a request had peen made to, India for the use of Indian troops' if that should prove necessary. So far it had not. The Rangooiij, newspapers reported that the authorities had detained a British officer of an army ordnance depot in Burma for questioning about the reported disappearance of 200 Bren guns and 10,000 rounds-of ammunition from the ordnance depot last week.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 July 1947, Page 7
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