RANGOON RIOTS
BURMESE AND INDIANS
MURDERS AND LOOTING.
L United Press Association—By Electric
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(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) DELHI, May 28
Although the situation was improved in Rangoon, isolated assaults continue. Four thousand Indians and families were removed for safety from the Burmese quarter of the city. A gang of Burmese 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 therefore started looting Indian shops, and massacring women and children, The Indians retaliated massacring Burmese families in other parts of the city. Ghastly murders were enacted, members of both communities being disembowelled and limbs hacked off with daggers and hatchets. Burmans then fired the Indian quarter, killing the occupants as they ran from the blazing buildings.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1930, Page 5
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