Days Of Horror
BURMA RIOTERS’ SAVAGERY Victims Cut to Pieces WOMAN TELLS OF DREADFUL CRIMES DREADFUL stories of the savage brutality of rioters iu Burma was told by a woman who has reached Australia from India. The narrator describes how victims were cut to pieces before her eyes, and how the perpetrators took ghoulish . pleasure in their vile work.
United P.A.— By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 11.15 a.ru. SYDNEY Today Stories of days of horror during the Burma riots were related by Mrs. N Freeman on her arrival from Kan goon. Once she said four natives were caught by an infuriated mob near her husband’s house and dismembered before her eyes.
The attackers used long cans knives. They cut off their victims’ arms to prevent retaliation in the next world. Another practice was to amputate every finger and arrange them in d circle around the corpse. Mrs. Freeman has entertained Kingstord Smith, Ulm. Chichester, and Miss Amy Johnson at Rangoon.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1033, 25 July 1930, Page 11
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158Days Of Horror Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1033, 25 July 1930, Page 11
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