REVOLT IN RANGOON.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18581, 30 May 1930, Page 9

REVOLT IN RANGOON.

GHASTLY MURDERS IN CITY. (United Press Association—By Electrle Telegraph—Copyright.) DELHI, May 28. Although the situation has improved in Rangoon, isolated assaults continue. Four thousand Indians and their families were 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, massacring Burmese families. The Indians retaliated, massacring Burmese families. In other parts of the city ghastly murders were enacted, members of both communities being dismembered and limbs hacked off with daggers and hatchets. The Burmans then fired the Indian quarters, killing the occupants as they ran from the blazing buildings. FEROCITY OF MOBS. LOOTING AND MASSACRE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received May 29, 11.30 p.m.) DELHI, May 29. Later accounts emphasise the unbelievable ferocity in Rangoon. Mobs composed of all Indians, combining against the Burmans, who retaliated by looting the Indian shops and massacring Indian women and children. Finally the Cameron Highlanders and police established a cordon round the disordered area. The casualties are estimated at fifty two dead, one thousand injured, of whom eighty are not expected to survive.