TROUBLE IN UPPER BURMA.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17419, 1 April 1922, Page 11

TROUBLE IN UPPER BURMA.

RAIDING BRIGANDS DEFEATED. oßy Cable— Pms Association—OopjTigiht.) (Auiirdiftn fend N.ii. Cable Aesociaiioo.) (Received March 31st, 5.5 p.m.) DELHI, March 30. Information from Rangoon regarding a raid by Chinese across the Shan border shows that the brigands, numbering about 500, led by Prince Wuntliu, a member of the former Burmese Royal House, attacked and burned, on March 20th, a house belonging to an American Baptist missionary, fir. Harper, at Namkhan. After sacking the village of Muse and murdering villagers, "Wunthu. who escaped from Burma across tne border in 1892, proclaimed himself King of Bhamo, and announced that he had come to annex Burma from, the British. Dr. Harper sent informa>tion to the military police, a detachment of whom were sent to Namkhan to protect the missionaries. The rebels were engaged on March 23rd on the Nampaw river, and dispersed .alter fierce fighting, in which they lost eighty killed. Wunthu was captured. The military police had three killed, and Captain Anderson was wounded. [The Shan tribes are a hardy race inhabiting the ihighlands of Upper Burma, South-west China, Cochin China, and Northern Siam.]