JAVA CLEARED OF HEAD--HUNTERS
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HEAVY CASUALTIES SUFFERED
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Received Monday, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, March 17. A military punitive expedition in the last five weeks has cleared the W.A. States in the northeast corner of Burnia of headhunting dacoits from Yunnan, who had been plundering villages since the end of the Japanese war, says Reuter's Rangoon correspondent. In the final encounter riflemen from the Burma Regiment, aided by 500 W.A. tribesmen, drove 700 bandits across the ' Chinese frontier, killing 47, wounding 12 and taking 14 prisoners.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 March 1946, Page 5
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