HATRED OF WHITE
PRIESTS INCITE ATTACK. ON AMERICAN MISSIONARIES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION--COPYRIGHT. (Received Oct. 14, 1.30 p.m.) DELHI, Oct. 13. Sir Harcourt Butler, Governor of Burma, has offered a reward of 5000 rupees for information leading to the conviction of the persons responsible for a savage attack on an American missionary Gleason and his wife a few days ago. The assault, which was made in broad daylight by a hand of Buddhist priests near a monastery while the pair were sightseeing, is thought, in responsible quarters, 'to he due' to violent fanatical anti-white hatred on the part of . priests, which has been evident for some time. It is evident that religious grounds were not the motiveas a few hours later two British soldiers were molested, one being injured with a sword cut ori the head. Military and civil police to-day raided the monastery, and arrested a number of monks and one layman. The Americans are progressing.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 October 1924, Page 7
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