BURMA CRIME WAVE
DACOIT VIOLENCE INCREASE IN MURDERS (9.30 a.m.) LONDON. April 14. Organised gangs, armed with weapons left over from the war, are causing the greatest crime wave in Burma's history, says Reuter’s correspondent in Rangoon. Dacoits systematically raid police posts, villages and some even ambush traffic escorted by armed police. Hold-ups and robberies have increased twelvefold. There have already been twice as manv murders in 1946 as in the whole of 1941.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21997, 15 April 1946, Page 5
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