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...last week a green jeep with no number plate drove in the gate of the Secretariat in Rangoon, where the Burmese Government's Executive Council was meeting. Four Burmans in British Twelfth...
...lead to dominion status instead of full independence for Burma. Last year gunmen fired three shots into U Saw's car; glass cut his face. He accused Aung San of planning the attack, and tightened the guard on his fortress-like house on a lake seven miles from Rangoon...
...night after the Cabinet massacre, police raided that house. After a gun duel, U Saw and 19 followers surrendered. Police found a cache of arms, and a green jeep holding a Bren gun, a Sten gun, and a hand grenade. U Saw was taken under heavy guard to Rangoon's central prison...
Arrest of a Burmese former Japanese occupation official, Bandoola U. Sein, in connection with Sunday's massacre of seven council ministers, was announced in the Rangoon press yesterday...
...acid was thrown. Communists dashed through the streets of Rangoon in a green jeep, shouting: "Rebellion, rebellion! Rise, rise!" A couple of polling booths outside the city were burned. The only bloodshed in Rangoon occurred when a constable accidentally discharged a shotgun into his foot...