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1918
Demonstration against Imperial Germany
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In 1918, a demonstration was held in Rangoon against Imperial Germany in front of the Central Fire Station on Sule Pagoda Road, with an over-sized effigy of Kaiser Wilhelm hung from the station tower (visible in this photograph, just beneath the pirate flag). This was probably in the months just before Kaiser Wilhelm's abdication in November that year. A regiment of Burma Rifles, several companies of sappers and miners, mechanical transport companies, and labour corps from Burma served during WW1 in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and France. The troops recruited from Burma were primarily ethnic Burmese, Kachin, Karen, and Chin.