SERIOUS GAOL MUTINY
BLOODSHED AT RANGOON PRISON WARDERS OVERCOME FIGHT WITH POLICE ENSUES DELHI, June 25. A serious mutiny at the Rangoon central gaol result oil in two warders, two military police, oiie lorry driver and !') convicts being killed and o'O convicts being injured. A party of Burmese arid Indian prisoners, in accordance with an organised plot overcame and killed the warders, raided the armoury, seizing rifles and ammunition and manned the gaol walls. A two-hour .fight with tin; military police followed till the revellers were driven into the building.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 85, 26 June 1930, Page 8
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