3 JANUARY 1931, Page 6

A Rising in Burma A curious rebellion is reported from

Burma. In the Tharawaddy district, some eighty miles from Rangoon, on Christmas Day, one of the tribal leaders known as " The Golden Crow," who is apparently the object of superstitious reverence, led about 500 tribesmen out of the jungle in a foray of killing, burning, and looting. There was a sharp encounter with the police, and a British forest engineer was murdered. Troops were sent to reinforce the local police, and although there were scattered outbreaks of violence for four or five days afterwards, the serious trouble seems to have ended.