INDEPENDENCE CAMPAIGN
PREP ARATION S BY BURMESE Keceived Wednesday, 1 a.m. * . ■ " -LONDON, Jam 7. ThA Bifrmese have' begun & liationwitle "indepenclence -caxnpaign," reports Retiter's Rangoon eorrespondent. The Avmgsaw Anti-Fascist Freedom Leagne siated that the campaign was to prepare the nation for . the coming strnggle for freedom. The campaign is primarily aimed to strengthen the " people 's volunteer corps" which everywhere is reported to be drilling and training and whose members are mainly former members of the pro-Japanese Burma Defence Party. Their strength is oflicially estimated at 30,u00 ont is probably at least 60,000.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 January 1947, Page 5
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92INDEPENDENCE CAMPAIGN Chronicle (Levin), 8 January 1947, Page 5
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