NIGHT OF TERROR
RIOTING IN RANGOON CASUALTIES STILL (TROW
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(Reecd. July 30, 1.30 p.m.) RANGOON, July 29. The casualties as a result of the riots aro 48 dead and 350 injured.
The police are escorting busloads of terror-stricken people from the danger zones. British troops with drawn bayonets protect all critical points. A niuht of terror has been intensified by the knowledge that many dead and injured paid the penalty of the rioting. The casualties are still mounting, because the streets are filled with armed Burmans and Indians, who spontaneously tight except .when police patrols are passing. Terror-stricken Burmese and Indian women and children have been evacuated from the danger areas and are being sheltered near the police stations, but rioting and murderous assaults continue in the quarters which they left, despite the strenuous efforts of British and native police to suppress the disorders.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19697, 1 August 1938, Page 7
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