GUNMEN ARRESTED
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Assassication of Burmese Ministers
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Received Thursday, 11.5 a.m. RANGOON, July 23. It is learned on good authority that the police have arrested the gunmen who last Saturday asSassinated the eight Burmese Ministers, says Reuter. The police last night shot dead one of the arrested gunmen as he attempted to escape from the jeep bringing hipn to Ramgoon from Pegu. The identities of the gunmen are not yet known, except that they ' are all Burmese Who seerned to have had military training. The Burma police will use mine detectors in an intensive search for the arms, which political organisations are believed to have buried. Two skeletons dug up near the entrance to the estate of U„. Saw, the Myochit Leader, have been sent to medical authorities to determihe the possible cause of death. Police who raided the home of U Ba Pe, a former member of the Governor's Executive Council, found nothing incriminating and no one was arrested. The secretary of the Defence Department, Ba Tint, said that Burma had not approached Britain or India for troops. "We have sufficient Burmese troops to deal with any situation likely to arise." ■ II. It— Jt j ,
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 July 1947, Page 5
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