ORGANISED IN ADVANCE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 8

ORGANISED IN ADVANCE

DISORDERS IN BURMA PROMPT MEASURES TAKEN (Britisli Official Wireless.) Roc. noon. RUGBY, Dec. 29. The outbreak of disorder in Burma was the subject of a communication addressed yesterday by the Government of Burma to commissioners and deputycoitimissioncrs throughout the province. It states: “The facts of the outbreak are as follows: The rebels come from villages south-west of Tbarrawaddy and north-east of Inseiri. The rising was clearly organised in advance, and started without any attempt to represent grievances. The rebels committed brutal outrages, murdering Government officers, Europeans and Burmese, and private persons without distinction of race or station, and tooting and destroying property. They can plead no excuse, either on"politica I or economic grounds. “It is essential foi‘ the peace of loyal and law-abiding subjects that a rising of this kind be dealt with as rapidly as possible, and with all the forces at the disposal of the Government. Two companies of troops, British and Indian, have already arrived at Tharrawaddy. A battalion of the Burma Rifles arrived to-dav. The police have already achieved considerable success, and the situation is improving daily. The Government intends to continue operations until the rebellion is put down, and law and order completely restored.”