RISING IN BURMA
COMMUNISTS SEIZE POWER IN CENTRAL STATES RANGOON, Dec. 6.
Burmese Communists seized power in Central Burma and established their own Governments in the districts of Toungoo, Pyinmana and Yamathin. Official details of the rising are incomplete, but the authorities fear that the established Government is in danger, particularly as it is known that the Communists had failed to surrender arms and ammunition to the Government in recent months. The menace to the Government is considered more serious than the movement aiming at the establishment of a separate Arakan State. Ministers conferred throughout the day behind guarded doors, examming plans for countering the Communists’ seizui-e of powei’s. Newspapers reported that big detachments of armed Burmese police had been rushed to the areas.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26639, 9 December 1947, Page 5
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124RISING IN BURMA Otago Daily Times, Issue 26639, 9 December 1947, Page 5
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