PRISON MUTINY
FORTY CONVICTS KILLED.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]
DELHI, June 20,
There has been a serious mutiny at the Rongoon Central gaol. It resulted in two Warders, two military police, one lorry driver and also forty conicts being killed, and sixty convicts being injured. A party of Burmese and Indian prisoners, in accordance with an organised plot overcame and killed the Warders. They then raided the armoury, seizing rifles and ammunition and manned the gaol walls. Two hours fipjht with military police followed till , the revolters were driven into the building.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1930, Page 5
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