Rangoon Rioting
STRENUOUS EFFORTS FAIL TO SUPPRESS DISORDER! CASUALTIES MOUNTING United Press Association.—By Electrlo Telegraph.—Copyright. itAXNtiUUN, July 29. The fourth night of terror has beei intensified by the knowledge that 41 dead and 300 injured paid the penalty for rioting. The casualties are stil moimting, because the streets are filled with armed Burmans and Indians, whe spontaneously fight except when police patrols are passing. Terror-stricken Burmese and Indian women and children have been evacuated from the danger areas, being sheltered near police stations, but rioting and murderous assaults continue in the quarters which they left, despite the strenuous efforts of British and lative police to suppress the disorders. Later: The casualties are 43 dead and 350 injured. The police are escorting bus loads ot terror-stricken people from the danger zones. British troops, with drawn bayonets, protect all critical points. ____—
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 179, 1 August 1938, Page 8
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