Life In Rangoon Full Of Surprises, Says Visitor To N.Z.
AUCKLAND. Yesterday I PAl—Life in Rangoon is full of surprises. Mr. R. B. Monteath. who arrived from Rangoon in the Monowai today, had to stop a game of golf on the Rangoon course because one political party was busy mortaring another on the fairway. Mr.’Monteath, w ho worked for shipping company agents in Rangoon, sai.i that because of po’it'eal “campaigning,” he had not left the city area for a year. “One party cut off the water in Rangoon just before L left,” sa d VI r. Monteath. “Once be ore Karens got elephants to work and shifted the pipes, and the water was off for a few days.”
Europeans were not singled out for persecution by the natives, hut they did not move far from towns, because of the restless state of the country.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 19 April 1949, Page 4
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