BURMANS AND INDIANS
WHOLESALE MASSACRES CONDITIONS AT RANGOON (United Press Association—By Eleotric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 29th May, 10.15 a.m.) DELHI, 28th May. Although the situation lias improved in Rangoon isolated assaults continue. Hour thousand Indians and their families wore removed for safety from the Burmese quarter of the city. A gang of Burmans threatening to attack Indians yesterday refused to lay down their arms when challenged by the police, who fired, killing ten. Later the Indians combined against the Burmans. The latter thereupon started looting Indian shops and massacring women and children. The Indians retaliated massacring Burmese families in other parts of the city. Ghastly murders were enacted, members of both communities being disembowelled and their limbs hacked off with daggers and hatchets. The Burmans then fired the Indian quarters, killing the occupants as they ran from the blazing buildings.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 29 May 1930, Page 5
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