BURMA REBELS
GENERAL ROUND-UP
FURTHER FIGHTING REPORTED (United Press Association— By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) DELHI, 6th January. Military operations against the Burma rebels is proceeding apace, the latest move being the organisation of mobile columns to cope with changing conditions. Two hundred rebels returning to their villages in the Insein district have been arrested, while a general round-up is taking place in the Tharrawaddy district, where further fighting is reported between the Second Fifteenth Punjabis and the rebels. The latter left fifteen dead on the ground, but the Punjabis suffered no casualties. Rebels attacked a rice mill owned by .Chinese. The polico killed six rebels and wounded many , others.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 7 January 1931, Page 5
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108BURMA REBELS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 7 January 1931, Page 5
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